Pauper: 5 Decks with Lorwyn Eclipsed to try out!

The Magic: The Gathering 2026 release season has begun! Lorwyn Eclipsed, the first of three in-universe expansions this year and the first of seven releases scheduled for 2026, returns players to a plane brimming with mystical creatures and fables, marking a homecoming to the iconic realm of Elves, Goblins, Faeries, Kithkin, and Elementals.

With previews wrapped up, our review season and new decklist series begin here at Cards Realm, where we highlight the most significant additions of the expansion for Magic's various formats. In this article, we focus on the Pauper format, with five decks built around or incorporating some of the new set's key cards!

Wildvine Ramp

Wildvine Pummeler is probably the most fun card to build around from the new expansion. By reducing its mana cost for each color among permanents we control, it interacts well with the cycle of three-color hybrid cards from Alara Reborn, especially Trace of Abundance, which virtually pays four mana towards casting it.

In the Ramp version above, we use Wild Cantor and Trace of Abundance to speed out our main threats. Among them is the classic Cascade package with Avenging Hunter, Boarding Party, and Writhing Chrysalis — which, despite having no colors and thus not reducing Wildvine's cost, is an even more powerful threat, and we can use the Eldrazi Spawn tokens to pay its colorless cost.

With so many large threats, Armadillo Cloak does a good job of slowing down the clock of any Aggro deck trying to be much faster, ultimately buying you enough time to go off with one of your bombs. Meanwhile, Sangrite Backlash serves a triple function: dealing with the opponent's early game, reducing Wildvine's cost by three, and being an effective pump spell alongside Armadillo Cloak.

Wildvine Zoo

This list seeks a more Aggro stance with Wildvine Pummeler, running the "Blades" cycle from Alara Reborn — creatures that technically have three colors and become 3/2s for two mana with an extra keyword if we control another multicolored permanent, a condition we can meet with Trace of Abundance and Slippery Bogle.

Personally, this variant is still very much a skeleton and has several elements that need consideration: which interactions to use, which Blades are actually worth it, and how to maintain a consistent mana base to support a more "Aggro" plan without giving up on the many multicolored cards needed to cast Pummeler early.

Mono White Convoke

It's been a long time since Mono White Tokens has been revisited in Pauper, and perhaps Sun-Dappled Celebrant offers a reason to experiment with a new variant of the archetype using other additions from recent years: Lunarch Veteran to complement Soul Warden for lifegain, Thraben Charm as interaction, and the Unfinity card Clowning Around, which can provide three tokens for two mana with some luck.

The Tokens plan remains to flood the board and win with Guardians' Pledge and Ramosian Rally, but we try to add Sun-Dappled Celebrant as a payoff for so many small creatures, enabling a more resilient line against cheap sweepers.

I believe a Boros Bully version might benefit more from Celebrant than Mono White, but since we already have a Boros deck in this article, I opted for a more linear variant in colors and strategy.

Boros Griffin Metalcraft

All Griffins in Pauper are pretty bad, so we've never had a good opportunity to explore the potential of Griffin Rider in the format as a 4/4 flyer for . Now, Stalactite Dagger creates a Griffin (Changeling) when it enters and can even turn Griffin Rider itself into one when equipped, making it a much more consistent threat.

To complement this strategy and taking advantage that Stalactite Dagger is also an artifact, we use the Glint Hawk / Kor Skyfisher package with Experimental Synthesizer to generate more card advantage while betting on the Metalcraft theme to play large threats for cheap.

Black Gardens

Black Midrange decks gained some interesting additions with the new set, and the best way to test them today is probably through Golgari Gardens. This deck can benefit from the flexibility between discard and removal offered by Auntie's Sentence, while Rooftop Percher can complement three distinct packages in one card: a complementary threat with evasion, maindeck graveyard hate, and lifegain against Aggro.

That's all for today!

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