There has been a lot of hype about currency converter in lands recently. Loam pox is a lands-adjacent deck that appears to use it better. Liliana OTV and Smallpox synergize much better with a discard based engine than exploration and crop rotation do. A 1 drop that poops out zombies is much more in line with an attrition deck than a combo/prison one.

It is a hybrid between bitterblossom, mox diamond, and scroll rack, all of which are reasonable cards in loam pox, but only 1 mana so you can get it with saga. It has a ton of synergy with cycle or channel lands, which are more valuable in pox than lands (due to the lack of exploration). Compared to the dark ritual/karn shells, smallpox and hymn inherently wants to play a smaller game. Karn pox does a poor job of being a “go big” deck compared to eldrazi post or curses.

My draft list:


4 Urza’s Saga
4 Wasteland
3 Maze of Ith
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawmoth
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Barren Moor
1 Nurturing Peatland
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Bayou
1 Forest
4 Swamp

4 Currency Converter
4 Raven’s Crime
4 Life From the Loam
4 Mox Diamond
2 Witherbloom Command

3 Thoughtseize
4 Smallpox
3 Liliana of the Veil

1 Nether Spirit
1 Shadowspear
1 Nihil Spellbomb