Pauper Golgari Gardens
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Golgari Gardens has slipped from ~5.5% to 2.5% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Slipped from ~5.5% to 2.5% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Rising Golgari Gardens cards
Cards gaining share within Golgari Gardens vs the prior 14 days, adjusted for format-wide play rate.
Maindeck
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulse of Murasa | 14% | 40% | +25.7% |
| Bonder's Ornament | 10% | 30% | +20.5% |
| Desert | 29% | 50% | +21.4% |
| Reckoner's Bargain | 52% | 80% | +27.6% |
| Golgari Rot Farm | 38% | 55% | +16.9% |
| Toxin Analysis | 10% | 15% | +5.5% |
| Drown in Sorrow | 48% | 55% | +7.4% |
| Snuff Out | 71% | 80% | +8.6% |
| Crypt Rats | 86% | 90% | +4.3% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffocating Fumes | 5% | 15% | +10.2% |
| Rancid Earth | 33% | 50% | +16.7% |
| Duress | 57% | 75% | +17.9% |
Typical Pauper Golgari Gardens maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 198 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Fanatical Offering | 4.0 | 100% |
| Khalni Garden | 3.9 | 100% |
| Bojuka Bog | 2.0 | 99% |
| Ichor Wellspring | 3.5 | 99% |
| Lembas | 2.9 | 99% |
| Eviscerator's Insight | 3.4 | 99% |
| Swamp | 9.2 | 99% |
| Cast Down | 3.9 | 95% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 2.9 | 95% |
| Campfire | 2.2 | 93% |
| Haunted Mire | 1.0 | 91% |
| Tithing Blade | 2.4 | 90% |
| Troll of Khazad-dûm | 3.0 | 89% |
| Crypt Rats | 2.6 | 78% |
| Defile | 3.6 | 70% |
| Snuff Out | 1.1 | 65% |
| Witch's Cottage | 1.4 | 58% |
| Golgari Rot Farm | 1.5 | 50% |
| Reckoner's Bargain | 1.8 | 47% |
| Accursed Marauder | 1.1 | 44% |
| Avenging Hunter | 1.2 | 42% |
| Fungal Infection | 1.3 | 40% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 1.0 | 30% |
| Spinning Darkness | 1.1 | 28% |
| Sagu Wildling | 1.0 | 24% |
| Cauldron Familiar | 2.9 | 23% |
| Drown in Sorrow | 1.6 | 23% |
| Nutrient Block | 4.0 | 22% |
| Pestilence | 3.0 | 22% |
| Heaped Harvest | 1.4 | 21% |
| Desert | 1.9 | 21% |
| Heritage Reclamation | 1.0 | 20% |
| Pulse of Murasa | 1.1 | 16% |
| Tragic Slip | 1.1 | 15% |
| Toxin Analysis | 1.3 | 15% |
| Grapple with Death | 1.3 | 14% |
| Bonder's Ornament | 1.2 | 12% |
| Forest | 1.1 | 11% |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 1.2 | 8% |
| Black Dragon Gate | 4.0 | 7% |
Typical Pauper Golgari Gardens sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 198 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 198 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Troublemaker Ouphe | 2.7 | 96% |
| Weather the Storm | 3.9 | 93% |
| Faerie Macabre | 1.9 | 89% |
| Drown in Sorrow | 2.2 | 78% |
| Duress | 2.8 | 58% |
| Avenging Hunter | 1.0 | 28% |
| Rancid Earth | 3.6 | 25% |
| Snuff Out | 1.1 | 17% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.5 | 14% |
| Tragic Slip | 1.2 | 14% |
| Moment's Peace | 1.2 | 13% |
| Campfire | 1.0 | 9% |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 1.1 | 7% |
| Hydroblast | 2.3 | 6% |
| Pilfer | 1.9 | 6% |
| Accursed Marauder | 1.2 | 5% |
| Blue Elemental Blast | 3.7 | 5% |
| Diabolic Edict | 1.0 | 5% |
| Cast Down | 1.4 | 4% |
| Tithing Blade | 1.3 | 4% |
| Grapple with Death | 1.4 | 4% |
| Heritage Reclamation | 2.0 | 4% |
| Murmuring Mystic | 1.4 | 4% |
| Pyroblast | 3.8 | 3% |
| Relic of Progenitus | 2.3 | 3% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 1.3 | 3% |
| Extract a Confession | 1.4 | 3% |
| Go for the Throat | 1.0 | 3% |
| Red Elemental Blast | 2.0 | 3% |
| Spinning Darkness | 1.0 | 3% |
| Chainer's Edict | 1.3 | 2% |
| Divest | 2.3 | 2% |
| Life Goes On | 2.0 | 2% |
| Okiba-Gang Shinobi | 1.8 | 2% |
| Slice from the Shadows | 3.0 | 2% |
| Arms of Hadar | 1.0 | 2% |
| Crypt Rats | 1.0 | 2% |
| Nausea | 1.0 | 2% |
| Stream of Thought | 1.0 | 2% |
| Desert | 1.0 | 1% |
Golgari Gardens Pauper FAQ
Is Golgari Gardens good in Pauper right now?
It's a fringe pick right now at 2.5% of decklists in the last two weeks, with 2 Top 8s. Best recent finish: 6th (5-2) at Pauper Challenge 32 on Jul 18, 2026.
What are the key cards in Pauper Golgari Gardens?
Nearly every list runs Fanatical Offering, Khalni Garden, Bojuka Bog, and Ichor Wellspring (99%+ of Pauper Golgari Gardens decklists in the last 90 days). Most lists are Stock (37); variants add Reckoner's Bargain (75) and Nutrient Block (35).
What's a typical Pauper Golgari Gardens sideboard?
The most common Pauper Golgari Gardens sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Troublemaker Ouphe (96% of lists), Weather the Storm (93% of lists), Faerie Macabre (89% of lists), and Drown in Sorrow (78% of lists). Suffocating Fumes is the fastest riser, up from 5% to 15% of sideboards.
Are there different builds of Pauper Golgari Gardens?
There's a clear stock core with real flex slots. Recent lists split into Reckoner's Bargain, Nutrient Block, and Stock approaches.
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 Golgari Gardens decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 877 Pauper Golgari Gardens decklists all-time (20 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Golgari Gardens result Jul 25, 2026.