Created by: Alex Hinkley
Basic Strategy: Continually remove your opponents creatures and then beat them down with the biggest creatures mono black has to offer.
Key Cards: Steel Hellkite and Nevinyrral's Disk offer removal options for pesky artifacts and enchantments - normally a weak suit for mono black decks. This deck has lots of card draw, removal spells, and creatures that can kill stuff or have other useful effects. High casting costs aren't a problem with mana doublers like Crypt Ghast, Nirkana Revenant, Cabal Coffers. The deck also has numerous ramp effects from mana rocks. Because the mana base is made mostly of basic lands, Snow-Covered swamps allow for some utility lands such as Scrying Sheets and Mouth of Ronom which helps deal with protection from black creatures. Direct damage cards like Consume Spirit, Exsanguinate, Profane Command, and even Gray Merchant of Asphodel can be game-enders.
Sheoldred, Whispering One is this deck's commander. |
Creature (26)
1x Bloodgift Demon
1x Crypt Ghast
1x Dark Impostor
1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
1x Dread
1x Gatekeeper of Malakir
1x Geralf's Messenger
1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
1x Grave Titan
1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1x Helldozer
1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1x Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
1x Liliana's Reaver
1x Lord of the Void
1x Massacre Wurm
1x Nirkana Revenant
1x Pestilence Demon
1x Phyrexian Obliterator
Helps cut down on the high casting costs. |
1x Sheoldred, Whispering One (Commander)
1x Shriekmaw
1x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Steel Hellkite
1x Visara the Dreadful
1x Wurmcoil Engine
Enchantment (4)
1x Heartless Summoning
1x Painful Quandary
1x Phyrexian Arena
1x Underworld Dreams
Sorcery (14)
1x Black Sun's Zenith
1x Consume Spirit
1x Consuming Vapors
1x Decree of Pain
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Exsanguinate
An answer to artifacts & enchantments. |
1x Mutilate
1x Night's Whisper
1x Read the Bones
1x Rise of the Dark Realms
1x Sign in Blood
Artifact (11)
1x Charcoal Diamond
1x Coalition Relic
1x Coldsteel Heart
1x Expedition Map
1x Gilded Lotus
1x Lashwrithe
1x Mana Vault
1x Nevinyrral's Disk
1x Sol Ring
1x Staff of Nin
1x Wayfarer's Bauble
Instant (3)
Cabal Coffers can double mana production. |
1x Murder
1x Tribute to Hunger
Land (39)
1x Cabal Coffers
1x Lake of the Dead
1x Mouth of Ronom
1x Scrying Sheets
32x Snow-Covered Swamp
1x Strip Mine
1x Thawing Glaciers
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Planeswalker (3)
1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
1x Liliana Vess
1x Sorin Markov
Sideboard (10)
1x Dark Betrayal
1x Deathgrip
1x Deathmark
1x Doom Blade
1x Halo Hunter
1x Reiver Demon
1x Sepulchral Primordial
1x Snuff Out
1x Stromgald Cabal
1x Ultimate Price