Pauper Faeries
Faeries is a Pauper tempo strategy that usually features Counterspell, Spellstutter Sprite, and Faerie Seer.
Meta
6.9%
Colors
Shift
+15%
Variability
High
370 decks in Harrier Strix
| Date | View Decklist | Player | Event | Place | Record | Uniqueness | Colors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31 | View | Guii_Machado | Pauper Challenge 32 | 8th | 5-3 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 30 | View | CrowleyMr | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 24 | View | DarkSlayer99 | Pauper Challenge 32 | 28th | — | Distinct · band 7 of 10 · 7 | |
| May 23 | View | Niederschatten | Pauper Challenge 32 | 25th | 2-4 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 23 | View | Robotflow | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 22 | View | Niederschatten | Pauper Challenge 32 | 4th | 6-2 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 22 | View | Guii_Machado | Pauper Challenge 32 | 24th | 3-3 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 22 | View | Niederschatten | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 21 | View | Niederschatten | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 20 | View | SFDK | Pauper League 2026-05-20 | — | 5-0 | Distinct · band 7 of 10 · 7 | |
| May 19 | View | serajh | Pauper League 2026-05-19 | — | 5-0 | Distinct · band 7 of 10 · 7 | |
| May 17 | View | barff | Pauper Challenge 32 | 1st | 8-1 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 17 | View | Brvnx | Pauper Challenge 32 | 7th | 4-2 | Spicy · band 9 of 10 · 9 | |
| May 9 | View | FSkura | Pauper Challenge 32 | 19th | 3-3 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 9 | View | FSkura | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| May 8 | View | Pension_mtg | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Apr 26 | View | marduscout | Pauper Challenge 32 | 15th | 4-2 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Apr 13 | View | OJoaoSette | Pauper League 2026-04-13 | — | 5-0 | Distinct · band 7 of 10 · 7 | |
| Apr 12 | View | sirhempsalot | Pauper Challenge 32 | 29th | 3-4 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Apr 9 | View | sirhempsalot | Pauper League 2026-04-09 | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Apr 9 | View | choccy_milk | Pauper League 2026-04-09 | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Apr 5 | View | jubileubr | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Apr 5 | View | OJoaoSette | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Apr 4 | View | choccy_milk | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Mar 30 | View | sirhempsalot | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Spicy · band 9 of 10 · 9 |
Faeries has climbed from ~4.5% to 6.9% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Climbed from ~4.5% to 6.9% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Rising Faeries cards
Cards gaining share within Faeries vs the prior 14 days, adjusted for format-wide play rate.
Maindeck
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contaminated Landscape | 4% | 26% | +21.6% |
| Preordain | New | 16% | +15.5% |
| Gurmag Angler | 2% | 17% | +15.1% |
| Humbling Elder | New | 12% | +12.1% |
| Foreboding Landscape | 15% | 29% | +14.4% |
| Sewer-veillance Cam | 34% | 45% | +10.8% |
| Unable to Scream | 2% | 9% | +6.5% |
| Snap | 19% | 24% | +5% |
| Of One Mind | 19% | 24% | +5% |
| Harrier Strix | 19% | 22% | +3.3% |
| Spell Pierce | 2% | 7% | +4.8% |
| Moon-Circuit Hacker | 87% | 93% | +5.9% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unable to Scream | New | 12% | +12.1% |
| Envelop | 2% | 12% | +9.9% |
| Bind the Monster | New | 7% | +6.9% |
| Humbling Elder | New | 5% | +5.2% |
| Murmuring Mystic | 51% | 55% | +4.1% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 4% | 9% | +4.4% |
| Steel Sabotage | 36% | 43% | +6.9% |
| Annul | 79% | 83% | +4% |
Typical Pauper Faeries maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 329 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Counterspell | 4.0 | 100% |
| Spellstutter Sprite | 4.0 | 100% |
| Faerie Seer | 3.8 | 98% |
| Island | 11.8 | 97% |
| Ninja of the Deep Hours | 2.7 | 96% |
| Moon-Circuit Hacker | 2.1 | 83% |
| Lórien Revealed | 4.0 | 78% |
| Cast Down | 2.4 | 77% |
| Snuff Out | 4.0 | 77% |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 1.9 | 77% |
| Dispel | 1.7 | 76% |
| Brainstorm | 4.0 | 73% |
| Contaminated Aquifer | 3.9 | 72% |
| Bojuka Bog | 1.3 | 70% |
| Swamp | 1.0 | 69% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 1.0 | 66% |
| Augur of Bolas | 4.0 | 64% |
| Extract a Confession | 1.0 | 59% |
| Agony Warp | 1.0 | 51% |
| Mukotai Ambusher | 1.0 | 50% |
| Dimir Aqueduct | 1.0 | 45% |
| Sewer-veillance Cam | 1.0 | 39% |
| Seething Landscape | 1.3 | 32% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.3 | 28% |
| Faerie Miscreant | 4.0 | 26% |
| Foreboding Landscape | 1.1 | 25% |
| Of One Mind | 3.8 | 22% |
| Brinebarrow Intruder | 3.8 | 22% |
| Snap | 3.4 | 22% |
| Harrier Strix | 3.2 | 20% |
| Contaminated Landscape | 1.1 | 13% |
| Gurmag Angler | 1.5 | 13% |
| Sneaky Snacker | 3.9 | 12% |
| Ice Tunnel | 3.1 | 8% |
| Abandon Attachments | 2.4 | 8% |
| The Modern Age | 2.4 | 7% |
| Murmuring Mystic | 1.1 | 6% |
| Mob Lookout | 1.9 | 6% |
| Deep Analysis | 1.0 | 6% |
| Force Spike | 2.2 | 6% |
Typical Pauper Faeries sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 329 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 329 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Hydroblast | 2.7 | 95% |
| Blue Elemental Blast | 3.1 | 91% |
| Relic of Progenitus | 2.0 | 75% |
| Annul | 2.9 | 74% |
| Arms of Hadar | 1.3 | 74% |
| Mukotai Ambusher | 1.1 | 59% |
| Campfire | 1.0 | 40% |
| Murmuring Mystic | 1.0 | 39% |
| Extract a Confession | 1.1 | 37% |
| Steel Sabotage | 3.2 | 36% |
| Envelop | 1.8 | 15% |
| Cryoshatter | 3.1 | 12% |
| Dispel | 1.2 | 12% |
| Okiba-Gang Shinobi | 1.0 | 11% |
| Unexpected Fangs | 1.6 | 10% |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 1.0 | 8% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 2.0 | 7% |
| Bojuka Bog | 1.0 | 5% |
| Bind the Monster | 3.0 | 4% |
| Unable to Scream | 2.1 | 4% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 1.0 | 3% |
| Sunken City | 1.0 | 3% |
| Cast Down | 1.0 | 2% |
| Faerie Macabre | 1.3 | 2% |
| Humbling Elder | 1.1 | 2% |
| Tormod's Crypt | 2.3 | 2% |
| Dawnbringer Cleric | 1.0 | 2% |
| Deep Analysis | 1.0 | 2% |
| Gut Shot | 2.2 | 2% |
| Prismatic Strands | 2.0 | 2% |
| Revoke Existence | 2.0 | 2% |
| Standard Bearer | 3.0 | 2% |
| Sunlance | 1.8 | 2% |
| Brinebarrow Intruder | 1.8 | 1% |
| Agony Warp | 1.0 | <1% |
| Viridian Longbow | 1.0 | <1% |
| Cast into the Fire | 2.0 | <1% |
| Echoing Truth | 1.0 | <1% |
| Gurmag Angler | 1.0 | <1% |
| Pyroblast | 3.5 | <1% |