Pauper Grixis Affinity
Grixis Affinity is a Pauper midrange strategy that usually features Refurbished Familiar, Nihil Spellbomb, and Drossforge Bridge.
Meta
4.9%
Colors
Shift
−9%
Variability
Low
369 decks in Cryogen Relic
| Date | View Decklist | Player | Event | Place | Record | Uniqueness | Colors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23 | View | Angus91 | Pauper Challenge 32 | 30th | 2-4 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| May 22 | View | reojund | Pauper Challenge 32 | 21st | 3-3 | Stock · band 1 of 10 · 1 | |
| May 22 | View | reojund | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Stock · band 1 of 10 · 1 | |
| May 21 | View | reojund | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Stock · band 1 of 10 · 1 | |
| May 19 | View | s8shock | Pauper League 2026-05-19 | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| May 17 | View | reojund | Pauper Rc Qualifier | 4th | 7-2 | Stock · band 1 of 10 · 1 | |
| May 16 | View | _against_ | Pauper Challenge 32 | 1st | 8-1 | Stock · band 1 of 10 · 1 | |
| May 16 | View | PinoIo_Cosmico | Pauper Challenge 32 | 14th | 4-2 | Familiar · band 3 of 10 · 3 | |
| May 16 | View | Angus91 | Pauper Challenge 32 | 27th | 3-3 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| May 15 | View | Edo_01 | Pauper Challenge 32 | 12th | 4-2 | Familiar · band 3 of 10 · 3 | |
| May 7 | View | PiracciniChallenge | Pauper Challenge 32 | 21st | 3-3 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| May 4 | View | lindoso01 | Pauper League 2026-05-04 | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 25 | View | Boquinha | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 22 | View | PinoIo_Cosmico | Pauper League 2026-04-22 | — | 5-0 | Familiar · band 3 of 10 · 3 | |
| Apr 18 | View | mugent | Pauper Challenge 32 | 30th | 1-4 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 17 | View | _against_ | Pauper Challenge 32 | 6th | 5-2 | Stock · band 1 of 10 · 1 | |
| Apr 17 | View | SplashBRB | Pauper Challenge 32 | 20th | 3-3 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 16 | View | mugent | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 14 | View | Loerien | Pauper League 2026-04-14 | — | 5-0 | Tuned · band 5 of 10 · 5 | |
| Apr 13 | View | galeogiao | Pauper League 2026-04-13 | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 11 | View | galeogiao | Pauper Challenge 32 | 14th | 4-2 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 11 | View | PinoIo_Cosmico | Pauper Challenge 32 | 16th | 4-2 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 10 | View | _against_ | Pauper Challenge 32 | 7th | 5-2 | Familiar · band 3 of 10 · 3 | |
| Apr 10 | View | galeogiao | Pauper Challenge 32 | 18th | 4-2 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 | |
| Apr 1 | View | PinoIo_Cosmico | Pauper League | — | 5-0 | Standard · band 4 of 10 · 4 |
Grixis Affinity has held steady around 4.9% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 4.9% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Rising Grixis Affinity cards
Cards gaining share within Grixis Affinity vs the prior 14 days, adjusted for format-wide play rate.
Maindeck
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torch the Tower | New | 20% | +19.5% |
| Chromatic Star | 10% | 22% | +12.4% |
| Sneaky Snacker | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| Kenku Artificer | 48% | 66% | +18.2% |
| Prophetic Prism | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| HYDRA Assault Robot | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| Reverse Engineer | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| Cast Down | 10% | 20% | +10% |
| Sewer-veillance Cam | 33% | 44% | +10.6% |
| Mountain | 43% | 46% | +3.5% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Envelop | 19% | 37% | +17.5% |
| Spell Pierce | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| Suffocating Fumes | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| Eviscerator's Insight | 2% | 10% | +7.4% |
| Cruel Alliance | New | 7% | +7.3% |
| Cast Down | 5% | 12% | +7.4% |
| Pyroblast | 57% | 66% | +8.7% |
| Metallic Rebuke | 2% | 7% | +4.9% |
| Grim Bauble | 2% | 7% | +4.9% |
| Krark-Clan Shaman | 69% | 78% | +9% |
| Steel Sabotage | 2% | 7% | +4.9% |
Typical Pauper Grixis Affinity maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 251 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Refurbished Familiar | 4.0 | 100% |
| Vault of Whispers | 3.7 | 100% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 2.4 | 99% |
| Drossforge Bridge | 3.8 | 98% |
| Mistvault Bridge | 3.9 | 98% |
| Myr Enforcer | 4.0 | 98% |
| Seat of the Synod | 2.6 | 98% |
| Silverbluff Bridge | 2.4 | 98% |
| Thoughtcast | 4.0 | 98% |
| Galvanic Blast | 4.0 | 97% |
| Reckoner's Bargain | 3.9 | 97% |
| Great Furnace | 2.2 | 97% |
| Blood Fountain | 2.1 | 95% |
| Utrom Monitor | 3.1 | 94% |
| Ichor Wellspring | 3.8 | 92% |
| Krark-Clan Shaman | 3.0 | 92% |
| Makeshift Munitions | 1.0 | 91% |
| Toxin Analysis | 2.6 | 90% |
| Sewer-veillance Cam | 1.6 | 60% |
| Mountain | 1.0 | 48% |
| Black Mage's Rod | 2.0 | 47% |
| Kenku Artificer | 1.7 | 22% |
| Swamp | 1.6 | 19% |
| Cryogen Relic | 2.4 | 15% |
| Fanatical Offering | 2.1 | 14% |
| Eviscerator's Insight | 1.4 | 12% |
| Cast Down | 2.1 | 6% |
| Chromatic Star | 2.9 | 6% |
| Candy Trail | 1.7 | 4% |
| Torch the Tower | 2.0 | 3% |
| Island | 1.3 | 3% |
| Hunter's Blowgun | 1.0 | 2% |
| Sneaky Snacker | 4.0 | 2% |
| Terminate | 1.2 | 2% |
| HYDRA Assault Robot | 4.0 | 2% |
| Metallic Rebuke | 2.3 | 2% |
| Prophetic Prism | 2.0 | 2% |
| Experimental Synthesizer | 2.3 | 1% |
| Mycosynth Wellspring | 1.0 | 1% |
| Pactdoll Terror | 4.0 | 1% |
Typical Pauper Grixis Affinity sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 251 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 251 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Elemental Blast | 2.7 | 88% |
| Extract a Confession | 1.8 | 86% |
| Hydroblast | 3.2 | 79% |
| Red Elemental Blast | 2.4 | 75% |
| Pyroblast | 3.3 | 71% |
| Krark-Clan Shaman | 1.2 | 69% |
| Unexpected Fangs | 1.1 | 58% |
| Envelop | 2.0 | 28% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.2 | 28% |
| Negate | 1.5 | 16% |
| Duress | 2.4 | 14% |
| Breath Weapon | 1.4 | 13% |
| Toxin Analysis | 1.3 | 10% |
| Cast into the Fire | 2.3 | 9% |
| Gorilla Shaman | 1.2 | 9% |
| Cast Down | 1.4 | 6% |
| Dispel | 2.8 | 5% |
| Fiery Cannonade | 1.3 | 5% |
| Metallic Rebuke | 2.5 | 4% |
| Arms of Hadar | 1.6 | 3% |
| Ashes to Ashes | 1.0 | 2% |
| Eviscerator's Insight | 1.2 | 2% |
| Spell Pierce | 1.8 | 2% |
| Steel Sabotage | 2.8 | 2% |
| Grim Bauble | 1.5 | 2% |
| Turn Aside | 1.3 | 2% |
| Choking Sands | 3.0 | 1% |
| Cruel Alliance | 1.0 | 1% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 2.0 | 1% |
| Suplex | 2.0 | 1% |
| Accursed Marauder | 2.0 | <1% |
| Faerie Macabre | 1.5 | <1% |
| Kenku Artificer | 1.0 | <1% |
| Terminate | 1.5 | <1% |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 2.0 | <1% |
| Annul | 2.0 | <1% |
| Black Mage's Rod | 1.0 | <1% |
| End the Festivities | 1.0 | <1% |
| Fanged Flames | 2.0 | <1% |
| Foul-Tongue Shriek | 3.0 | <1% |