Pauper Cycle Storm
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Cycle Storm has climbed from ~0.3% to 0.9% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Climbed from ~0.3% to 0.9% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Typical Pauper Cycle Storm maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 24 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Barren Moor | 4.0 | 100% |
| Cabal Ritual | 3.0 | 100% |
| Dark Ritual | 4.0 | 100% |
| Drannith Stinger | 4.0 | 100% |
| Horror of the Broken Lands | 2.3 | 100% |
| Reaping the Graves | 4.0 | 100% |
| Rowan's Grim Search | 3.7 | 100% |
| Songs of the Damned | 4.0 | 100% |
| Street Wraith | 4.0 | 100% |
| Lotus Petal | 4.0 | 96% |
| Drannith Healer | 4.0 | 92% |
| Imposing Vantasaur | 4.0 | 92% |
| Monstrous Carabid | 3.1 | 92% |
| Page, Loose Leaf | 4.0 | 92% |
| Vault of Whispers | 4.0 | 92% |
| Great Furnace | 4.0 | 83% |
| Blood Celebrant | 1.0 | 13% |
| Swamp | 5.0 | 13% |
| Architects of Will | 4.0 | 8% |
| Barkform Harvester | 1.0 | 8% |
| Geothermal Bog | 1.0 | 8% |
| Lurching Rotbeast | 4.0 | 8% |
| Repository Skaab | 1.0 | 8% |
| Seat of the Synod | 4.0 | 8% |
| Troll of Khazad-dûm | 4.0 | 8% |
Typical Pauper Cycle Storm sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 24 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 24 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Duress | 2.1 | 100% |
| Chitin Gravestalker | 4.0 | 92% |
| Pyroblast | 3.1 | 88% |
| Faerie Macabre | 2.0 | 83% |
| Siege Smash | 2.1 | 83% |
| Swamp | 1.1 | 83% |
| Blood Celebrant | 1.0 | 50% |
| Barkform Harvester | 1.0 | 25% |
| Darkness | 3.0 | 8% |
| Ingot Chewer | 4.0 | 8% |
| Vision Charm | 3.0 | 8% |
| Weather the Storm | 1.5 | 8% |
| Bojuka Bog | 1.0 | 4% |
| Gut Shot | 2.0 | 4% |
| Hindering Touch | 2.0 | 4% |
| Lotus Petal | 1.0 | 4% |
| Mountain | 1.0 | 4% |
| Snow-Covered Swamp | 1.0 | 4% |
| Writhing Necromass | 4.0 | 4% |
Cycle Storm Pauper FAQ
Is Cycle Storm good in Pauper right now?
Cycle Storm is 0.9% of Pauper decklists in the last two weeks. Best recent finish: 12th (5-2) at Pauper Challenge 32 on Jul 19, 2026.
What are the key cards in Pauper Cycle Storm?
Nearly every list runs Barren Moor, Cabal Ritual, Dark Ritual, and Drannith Stinger (99%+ of Pauper Cycle Storm decklists in the last 90 days).
What's a typical Pauper Cycle Storm sideboard?
The most common Pauper Cycle Storm sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Duress (100% of lists), Chitin Gravestalker (92% of lists), Pyroblast (88% of lists), and Faerie Macabre (83% of lists).
What does Uniqueness mean?
Uniqueness rates each list from band 1 (Stock) through band 10 (Unique). Higher means a list is more unusual vs recent peers of this strategy.
How many Pauper Cycle Storm decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 67 Pauper Cycle Storm decklists all-time (8 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Cycle Storm result Jul 27, 2026.