Pauper Faeries
Faeries is a Pauper tempo strategy that usually features Counterspell, Spellstutter Sprite, and Faerie Seer.
Meta
6.9%
Colors
Shift
+12%
Variability
High
560 decks in Dimir
| Date | View Decklist | Player | Event | Place | Record | Uniqueness | Colors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2025 | View | Oblitireate | Pauper League 2025-10-20 | — | 5-0 | Typical · band 2 of 10 · 2 | |
| Oct 19, 2025 | View | Beicodegeia | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-19 | 2nd | — | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Oct 19, 2025 | View | _against_ | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-19 | 14th | — | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | View | outZEROo | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-18 | 17th | — | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | View | yuxiaoyu | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-18 | 20th | — | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | View | Heterodox | Pauper League 2025-10-18 | — | 5-0 | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | View | barff | Pauper League 2025-10-18 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | Brvnx | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-17 | 23rd | — | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | barff | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-17 | 24th | — | Off-beat · band 8 of 10 · 8 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | outZEROo | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-17 | 30th | — | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | yuxiaoyu | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-17 | 31st | — | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | bombaj | Pauper League 2025-10-17 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | Montij | Pauper League 2025-10-17 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | View | Vbon92 | Pauper League 2025-10-17 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 16, 2025 | View | bombaj | Pauper League 2025-10-16 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 16, 2025 | View | yuxiaoyu | Pauper League 2025-10-16 | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 16, 2025 | View | serajh | Pauper League 2025-10-16 | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 15, 2025 | View | outZEROo | Pauper League 2025-10-15 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Oct 14, 2025 | View | bombaj | Pauper League 2025-10-14 | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Oct 14, 2025 | View | vikizin | Pauper League 2025-10-14 | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 14, 2025 | View | Japorongo | Pauper League 2025-10-14 | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 14, 2025 | View | yuxiaoyu | Pauper League 2025-10-14 | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 12, 2025 | View | Beicodegeia | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-12 | 1st | — | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 12, 2025 | View | _against_ | Pauper Challenge 32 2025-10-12 | 25th | — | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 | |
| Oct 12, 2025 | View | Brvnx | Pauper League 2025-10-12 | — | 5-0 | Adapted · band 6 of 10 · 6 |
Faeries has climbed from ~4.7% to 6.9% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Climbed from ~4.7% 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 | 6% | 25% | +18.8% |
| Humbling Elder | New | 14% | +14.3% |
| Preordain | 2% | 14% | +12.2% |
| Gurmag Angler | 2% | 18% | +15.8% |
| Unable to Scream | 2% | 13% | +10.4% |
| Foreboding Landscape | 17% | 27% | +10.1% |
| Of One Mind | 19% | 29% | +9.8% |
| Sewer-veillance Cam | 33% | 45% | +11.3% |
| Snap | 19% | 27% | +8% |
| Faerie Miscreant | 25% | 32% | +7.1% |
| Harrier Strix | 19% | 25% | +6.3% |
| Spell Pierce | 2% | 7% | +5.1% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unable to Scream | New | 13% | +12.5% |
| Envelop | 2% | 13% | +10.4% |
| Bind the Monster | New | 9% | +8.9% |
| Dispel | 2% | 7% | +5.1% |
| Humbling Elder | New | 5% | +5.4% |
| Steel Sabotage | 35% | 46% | +11% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 4% | 9% | +4.8% |
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 | 11.9 | 97% |
| Ninja of the Deep Hours | 2.8 | 96% |
| Moon-Circuit Hacker | 2.1 | 83% |
| Lórien Revealed | 4.0 | 78% |
| Cast Down | 2.4 | 76% |
| Snuff Out | 4.0 | 76% |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 1.9 | 76% |
| Dispel | 1.7 | 75% |
| Brainstorm | 4.0 | 72% |
| Contaminated Aquifer | 3.9 | 71% |
| Bojuka Bog | 1.3 | 69% |
| Swamp | 1.0 | 68% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 1.0 | 65% |
| Augur of Bolas | 4.0 | 64% |
| Extract a Confession | 1.0 | 58% |
| Agony Warp | 1.0 | 51% |
| Mukotai Ambusher | 1.0 | 49% |
| 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 | 3.9 | 23% |
| 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% |
| Abandon Attachments | 2.4 | 8% |
| Ice Tunnel | 3.1 | 8% |
| The Modern Age | 2.4 | 7% |
| Murmuring Mystic | 1.1 | 6% |
| Force Spike | 2.1 | 6% |
| Mob Lookout | 1.9 | 6% |
| Deep Analysis | 1.0 | 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% |
| Annul | 2.9 | 74% |
| Relic of Progenitus | 2.0 | 74% |
| Arms of Hadar | 1.2 | 74% |
| Mukotai Ambusher | 1.1 | 58% |
| Campfire | 1.0 | 40% |
| Murmuring Mystic | 1.0 | 39% |
| Extract a Confession | 1.1 | 37% |
| Steel Sabotage | 3.2 | 36% |
| Envelop | 1.8 | 14% |
| Cryoshatter | 3.0 | 12% |
| Dispel | 1.3 | 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% |
| Echoing Truth | 1.0 | <1% |
| Viridian Longbow | 1.0 | <1% |
| Cast into the Fire | 2.0 | <1% |
| Gurmag Angler | 1.0 | <1% |
| Pyroblast | 3.5 | <1% |