Deck guide
Premodern Deadguy Ale Deck Guide
Also known as: BW Disruption · Deadguy · BW Aggro
Deadguy Ale is a Tier 1.5 midrange deck in Premodern, with a 38.2% win rate in the Duress Crew MTGO dataset.
At a glance
Event decklists
Event decklists
No event decklists on file yet — lists are pulled from mtgtop8 PREM and the MTGO Premodern Challenge feed.
Game plan
What Deadguy Ale is trying to do
A BW midrange-disruption deck that strips the opponent's hand with Duress, Hymn, and Cabal Therapy while pressuring with Hypnotic Specter and Cursed Scroll. It plays as a midrange deck in Tier 1.5 of the current Premodern metagame.
Core cards
What defines Deadguy Ale
Sideboarding & matchups
How Deadguy Ale fares
MTGO match data via the Duress Crew Premodern Data Analysis Project.
- The Rock 76.9% n=13
- Contamination 71.4% n=7
- Survival Rock 71.4% n=7
- Gro-a-tog 54.5% n=22
- Blue/White Dreadnought 50% n=8
- Mono Blue Tide Control 0% n=6
- Moneyball Black 0% n=2
- Survival Madness 11.1% n=18
See the full matchup matrix for head-to-head pairings across the format.
Strategy
How to play Deadguy Ale
A full written primer for Deadguy Ale — mulligan decisions, sequencing, and the sideboard plan — is in progress. The decklists, key cards, and matchup data above are kept current in the meantime.
FAQ
Common questions
- Is Deadguy Ale a good deck in Premodern?
- Deadguy Ale is a Tier 1.5 deck with a 38.2% win rate across 584 tracked MTGO matches (Duress Crew Premodern Data Analysis Project).
- What colors is Deadguy Ale?
- Deadguy Ale is a White, Black deck.
Next steps
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