M13 Mono Black Control

by Juuio_Escobar on 30 June 2012

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (12 cards)

Sorceries (2)


Instants (6)

Artifacts (4)

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Deck Description

This was my first attempt at a mono black control, and I don't usually run control so let me know what about the deck sucks.

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  • Control

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for M13 Mono Black Control

if you run cards such as Mutilate and Barter in Blood, you need to run recursive creatures or creatures that dodges those spells. If you chose to smaller creatures anyway, try to run creatures with EtB abilities such as Gatekeeper of Malakir. Recursive creatures could be creatures such as Bloodghast, which comes back each time you play a land. Cards like Griselbrand might look good on paper, but the occasions where you get to play the card are usually few. I would recommend cutting Fume Spitter, Griselbrand, Gloom Surgeron, Vampire Nighthawk and Massacre Wurm and Tragic Slip. Instead I would add 4x Bloodghast, 4x Phyrexian Totem, 4x Chimeric Idol, 4x Innocent Blood. Then you got 4 slots left which should use used to either board sweepers or other nasty cards, that is entirely up to you. Cards I would recommend you to consider would be: Black Sun Zenith, Damnation, Smallpox, Infest, Duress, Inquisition of Kozilek and Hymn to Tourach.
Of the recommended cards, Hymn to Tourach is probably the best choice and if you can't get it to fit in, I would replace something else for it. In short, there is no MBC without Hymn to Tourach, it is the best discard spell ever printed.

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Posted 30 June 2012 at 08:11

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he wants this to be standard

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Posted 30 June 2012 at 12:16

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Gloom Surgeon seems like an odd choice, and I'm not sure Fume Spitter is a good fit. Maybe try replacing them with some Lashwrithe's and main-deck discard (such as Duress/Appetite for Brains/Despise). Otherwise seems good!

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Posted 08 July 2012 at 17:50

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With Gloom surgeon I wanted a solid blocker that wasn't too high of a cost. In play testing, I've found that milling ten cards is a lot better than taking lethal damage.

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Posted 11 July 2012 at 19:33

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