Spicy Brews: Unusual Premodern Decklists
Unusual, rarely-seen Premodern decks: the spicy lists you won't find on any tier list.
All 19 brews
- Hammer Time: Hammer Time is a mono-red control deck with 26 lands and only three creature cards, and it wants the game to go long because of Hammer of Bogardan.
- Great Combo: Great Combo turns Phyrexian Dreadnought's drawback into card draw: with Greater Good out, you sacrifice the Dreadnought in response to its enters trigger, draw …
- Deadapult: Deadapult turns every Zombie you control into 2 damage for R each, and the deck is built to keep reloading.
- Pirates: Each Rishadan pirate makes the opponent sacrifice a permanent when it enters unless they pay (1 for Cutpurse, 2 for Footpad, 3 for Brigand).
- Chronatog Stax: Chronatog's {0} ability gives it +3/+3 and makes you skip your next turn, and since you can use it once in each of the opponent's turns, you never take another …
- Hypnotic Wurm: Tempting Wurm is a 5/5 for two mana, but when it enters, the opponent may put any number of artifacts, creatures, enchantments and lands from their hand onto …
- Battle of Wits: This deck plays 232 cards because Battle of Wits wins the game at the beginning of your upkeep if you have 200 or more cards in your library.
- Painters: The name is a nod to Painter's Servant, which isn't legal in Premodern, and the deck builds the same idea out of two cards that are.
- Land Locked: Land Locked plays 30 lands, one creature and no burn or combo. It wins because the opponent's hand never empties, and first it makes sure its own hand doesn't …
- 4c Blessing Control: 4c Blessing Control is a draw-go deck with no creature cards at all, built to outlast the opponent while Gaea's Blessing keeps its own library from running …
- Squirrels: Squirrels fills the board with 1/1 tokens from the first turn on, starting with Chatter of the Squirrel, which makes one for a single green mana and flashes …
- Minotaurs: Didgeridoo is a one-mana artifact from Homelands with a single ability: pay 3 and put a Minotaur card from your hand onto the battlefield.
- Snap Cradle Pop: Snap Cradle Pop is a green-blue combo deck built around Gaea's Cradle, which taps for one green mana per creature you control.
- Tropical Naught: Tropical Naught is Stiflenought in blue, red and green: the same one-mana Phyrexian Dreadnought combo, with threshold creatures, burn and Fling added.
- Counter Sliver: Counter Sliver is a white-blue tempo deck with a green splash, built mostly from two-mana Slivers.
- Coffers Control: Coffers Control is a mono-black control deck that kills with Corrupt and Drain Life, and both grow with every Swamp you control.
- Darwin's Dead: Darwin's Dead is a blue-black Zombie deck that mills the opponent out with Rotlung Reanimator, Artificial Evolution and Altar of Dementia.
- Draco Blast: Draco Blast is a black-red Specter deck that wins with a Draco it never casts. Draco has a mana value of 16, the highest of any Premodern card, and Erratic …
- Bloody Clerics: Bloody Clerics is the black Clerics deck with a red splash for Goblin Bombardment and Terminate, and Bombardment changes how it wins.
