Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice
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Mono-Black Sacrifice has held steady around 1.1% of the Pauper metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 1.1% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Typical Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 57 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Bloodthrone Vampire | 3.8 | 100% |
| Carrion Feeder | 4.0 | 100% |
| Infestation Sage | 4.0 | 100% |
| Mortician Beetle | 4.0 | 100% |
| Nested Shambler | 4.0 | 100% |
| Swamp | 16.7 | 100% |
| Rite of Consumption | 2.2 | 98% |
| Supernatural Stamina | 3.9 | 98% |
| Unearth | 2.2 | 93% |
| Shambling Ghast | 2.4 | 75% |
| Sadistic Glee | 2.2 | 68% |
| Village Rites | 3.9 | 67% |
| Accursed Marauder | 1.9 | 61% |
| Nezumi Linkbreaker | 3.9 | 54% |
| Snuff Out | 2.6 | 44% |
| Rotten Reunion | 1.3 | 40% |
| Corrupted Conviction | 1.9 | 30% |
| Fungal Infection | 3.2 | 30% |
| Perigee Beckoner | 3.9 | 30% |
| Barren Moor | 1.0 | 26% |
| Dark Ritual | 1.0 | 23% |
| Snarling Gorehound | 1.0 | 23% |
| Troll of Khazad-dûm | 1.2 | 23% |
| Tragic Slip | 1.8 | 11% |
| Mesmeric Fiend | 1.8 | 9% |
| Spinning Darkness | 2.2 | 9% |
| Plagued Rusalka | 1.3 | 5% |
| Soul Reap | 1.0 | 4% |
| Crawl from the Cellar | 1.0 | 2% |
| Deadly Precision | 1.0 | 2% |
| Fungal Fortitude | 1.0 | 2% |
| Ghoulcaller's Chant | 1.0 | 2% |
| Mutagenic Growth | 1.0 | 2% |
| Serrated Scorpion | 4.0 | 2% |
| Shadow Alley Denizen | 1.0 | 2% |
| Sylvok Lifestaff | 1.0 | 2% |
Typical Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 57 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 57 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Mesmeric Fiend | 2.4 | 100% |
| Rotten Reunion | 2.4 | 95% |
| Tragic Slip | 2.9 | 91% |
| Accursed Marauder | 2.0 | 89% |
| Spinning Darkness | 1.6 | 58% |
| Snuff Out | 1.1 | 53% |
| Nihil Spellbomb | 1.1 | 46% |
| Mutagenic Growth | 2.9 | 44% |
| Sylvok Lifestaff | 1.8 | 44% |
| Vampiric Link | 1.2 | 26% |
| Drown in Sorrow | 1.4 | 16% |
| Unexpected Fangs | 1.3 | 14% |
| Shambling Ghast | 1.0 | 12% |
| Voltaic Whip | 2.2 | 11% |
| Relic of Progenitus | 1.2 | 9% |
| Sam's Desperate Rescue | 2.4 | 9% |
| Duress | 1.0 | 5% |
| Suffocating Fumes | 1.3 | 5% |
| Fungal Infection | 1.0 | 4% |
| Cast Down | 1.0 | 2% |
| Choking Sands | 1.0 | 2% |
| Contaminated Ground | 2.0 | 2% |
| Echoing Decay | 1.0 | 2% |
| Poison Dart Frog | 1.0 | 2% |
| Sadistic Glee | 1.0 | 2% |
| Serrated Scorpion | 2.0 | 2% |
| Wekhdu, Midnight Hunter | 1.0 | 2% |
Mono-Black Sacrifice Pauper FAQ
Is Mono-Black Sacrifice good in Pauper right now?
Mono-Black Sacrifice is 1.1% of Pauper decklists, though it's fallen sharply (−45%) over the last two weeks, with 1 Top 8. Best recent finish: 5th (7-1) at Pauper Challenge 32 on Jul 26, 2026.
What are the key cards in Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice?
Nearly every list runs Bloodthrone Vampire, Carrion Feeder, Infestation Sage, and Mortician Beetle (99%+ of Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice decklists in the last 90 days). Most lists are Stock (16); variants add Corrupted Conviction (8) and Mesmeric Fiend (5).
What's a typical Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice sideboard?
The most common Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Mesmeric Fiend (100% of lists), Rotten Reunion (95% of lists), Tragic Slip (91% of lists), and Accursed Marauder (89% of lists).
Are there different builds of Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice?
Recent lists split into Corrupted Conviction, Mesmeric Fiend, 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 Mono-Black Sacrifice decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 282 Pauper Mono-Black Sacrifice decklists all-time (9 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Mono-Black Sacrifice result Jul 28, 2026.