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2/25/2025
Half-budget madness
Deck Size: 60
Pauper
Legal
Est deck cost: $42.71
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Burn

Qty: 4 Price: $5.16
Alms of the Vein

Target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Alms of the Vein (soi) 98

Burn

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Land

Qty: 16 Price: $9.80
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (drc) 147
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Forgotten Cave

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Forgotten Cave (j25) 766
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 278
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (clu) 243
Razortrap Gorge

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Razortrap Gorge (dsk) 267
Seething Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {U}{B}{R} ({U}{B}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Seething Landscape (mh3) 225
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 287
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (j25) 156

Land

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Discard

Qty: 6 Price: $2.10
Kitchen Imp

Flying, haste Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Kitchen Imp (mh2) 89
Mind Rake

Target player discards two cards. Overload {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mind Rake (plst) MH1-96

Discard

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Recursion

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Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Sorcery
Macabre Waltz (fdn) 177
Sneaky Snacker

Flying When you draw your third card in a turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Sneaky Snacker (mh3) 205

Recursion

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Draw

Qty: 16 Price: $10.24
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (mb2) 57
Grab the Prize

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Grab the Prize (dsk) 138
Highway Robbery

You may discard a card or sacrifice a land. If you do, draw two cards. Plot {1}{R} (You may pay {1}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Highway Robbery (otj) 129
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137
Voldaren Epicure

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each opponent. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Voldaren Epicure (j25) 613

Draw

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Removal

Qty: 10 Price: $7.38
Fiery Temper

Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target. Madness {R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Fiery Temper (plst) SOI-156
Lightning Axe

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay {5}. Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.

Instant
Lightning Axe (j22) 569
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (clu) 141
Terminal Agony

Destroy target creature. Madness {B}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Terminal Agony (mh2) 215

Removal

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Finisher

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Gurmag Angler

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

Creature
Gurmag Angler (plst) UMA-102

Finisher

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Sideboard

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Ardent Elementalist

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Ardent Elementalist (mid) 128
Blazing Volley

Blazing Volley deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

Sorcery
Blazing Volley (plst) AKH-119
Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (fdn) 259
Dangerous Wager

Discard your hand, then draw two cards.

Instant
Dangerous Wager (avr) 131
Distemper of the Blood

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Madness {R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Distemper of the Blood (plst) EMN-126
Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (fdn) 606
Goblin Surprise

Choose one — • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. • Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Instant
Goblin Surprise (fdn) 200
Razortrap Gorge

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Razortrap Gorge (dsk) 267
Scrapwork Mutt

When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Scrapwork Mutt (bro) 164
Teach by Example

({U/R} can be paid with either {U} or {R}.) When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Teach by Example (stx) 241
Yavimaya Steelcrusher

Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.

Creature
Yavimaya Steelcrusher (dmu) 152

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Maybeboard

Qty: 2 Price: $1.38
Tectonic Hazard

Tectonic Hazard deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Sorcery
Tectonic Hazard (lci) 169

Maybeboard

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0 mana - 0 cards
4 pips - 4 cards
1 mana - 1 card
22 pips - 22 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
28 pips - 24 cards
9 mana - 9 cards
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2 mana - 2 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Kind of a standard pauper Madness deck without artifact stuff (that was too expensive...)\n"}]}
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