Pauper Grixis Affinity
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Grixis Affinity has held steady around 4.8% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 4.8% · 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 | 21% | +20.5% |
| Chromatic Star | 10% | 23% | +13.3% |
| Sneaky Snacker | New | 8% | +7.7% |
| Kenku Artificer | 49% | 67% | +17.9% |
| Sewer-veillance Cam | 32% | 46% | +14.4% |
| Cast Down | 10% | 21% | +10.8% |
| Swamp | 17% | 23% | +6% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Envelop | 22% | 38% | +16.5% |
| Spell Pierce | New | 8% | +7.7% |
| Suffocating Fumes | New | 8% | +7.7% |
| Eviscerator's Insight | 2% | 10% | +7.8% |
| Cast Down | 5% | 13% | +7.9% |
| Pyroblast | 56% | 64% | +8% |
| Hydroblast | 76% | 85% | +9% |
| Krark-Clan Shaman | 71% | 77% | +6.2% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 34% | 38% | +4.3% |
| Steel Sabotage | 2% | 8% | +5.3% |
Typical Pauper Grixis Affinity maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 249 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 | 2.3 | 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 | 1.7 | 60% |
| Mountain | 1.0 | 48% |
| Black Mage's Rod | 2.0 | 47% |
| Kenku Artificer | 1.7 | 23% |
| Swamp | 1.6 | 20% |
| Cryogen Relic | 2.4 | 15% |
| Fanatical Offering | 2.2 | 14% |
| Eviscerator's Insight | 1.4 | 12% |
| Chromatic Star | 3.0 | 7% |
| Cast Down | 2.1 | 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 249 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 249 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 | 76% |
| Pyroblast | 3.3 | 69% |
| Krark-Clan Shaman | 1.2 | 68% |
| Unexpected Fangs | 1.1 | 57% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.3 | 29% |
| Envelop | 2.0 | 29% |
| Negate | 1.5 | 16% |
| Duress | 2.4 | 14% |
| Breath Weapon | 1.4 | 12% |
| Cast into the Fire | 2.3 | 10% |
| Gorilla Shaman | 1.2 | 9% |
| Toxin Analysis | 1.3 | 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% |
Grixis Affinity Pauper FAQ
Is Grixis Affinity good in Pauper right now?
It's a solid choice at 4.8% of decklists in the last two weeks, with 3 Top 8s. Best recent finish: 2nd (7-2) at Pauper Challenge 32 on Jul 23, 2026.
What are the key cards in Pauper Grixis Affinity?
Nearly every list runs Refurbished Familiar and Nihil Spellbomb (99%+ of Pauper Grixis Affinity decklists in the last 90 days). Most lists are Stock (96); variants add Cryogen Relic (31) and Fanatical Offering (23).
What's a typical Pauper Grixis Affinity sideboard?
The most common Pauper Grixis Affinity sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Blue Elemental Blast (88% of lists), Extract a Confession (86% of lists), Hydroblast (79% of lists), and Red Elemental Blast (76% of lists). Envelop is the fastest riser, up from 22% to 38% of sideboards.
Are there different builds of Pauper Grixis Affinity?
Mostly one stock build — recent lists are highly standardized. Recent lists split into Cryogen Relic, Fanatical Offering, 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 Grixis Affinity decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 823 Pauper Grixis Affinity decklists all-time (39 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Grixis Affinity result Jul 28, 2026.