Premodern Devourer Deck Guide

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 Devourer is trying to do

A UBR combo deck that loops Worldgorger Dragon with Animate Dead for infinite mana and casts a finisher like Stroke of Genius or Drain Life out of the Wish board. It plays as a combo deck in Tier 2 of the current Premodern metagame.

Core cards

What defines Devourer

• Worldgorger Dragon
• Animate Dead
• Dance of the Dead
• Buried Alive
• Force of Will
• Duress
• Cabal Therapy
• Intuition
• Wasteland
• Reanimate

Sideboarding & matchups

How Devourer fares

MTGO match data via the Duress Crew Premodern Data Analysis Project.

• Contamination 100% n=4
• Moneyball Black 100% n=9
• White Weenie 100% n=7
• The Rock 83.3% n=12
• Elves 79.2% n=48
• Blue/White Dreadnought 0% n=9
• Mono Blue Dreadnought 12.5% n=24
• Terrageddon 20% n=30

See the full matchup matrix for head-to-head pairings across the format.

Strategy

How to play Devourer

A full written primer for Devourer — mulligan decisions, sequencing, and the sideboard plan — is in progress. The decklists, key cards, and matchup data above are kept current in the meantime.

How to play Devourer →

FAQ

Common questions

Is Devourer a good deck in Premodern?

Devourer is a Tier 2 deck with a 55.5% win rate across 636 tracked MTGO matches (Duress Crew Premodern Data Analysis Project).

What colors is Devourer?

Devourer is a Blue, Black, Red deck.

Next steps

Decks that play like it

• Angry Hermit BRG
• Aluren UBG
• Doomsday UB
• Erratic Explosion UR
• Goblin Bidding BR
• Reanimator UB