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This deck is essentially a black aggro deck which uses black devotion as finisher in the form of gray merchant of asphodel.
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Without an overview of how the deck works, I can't say much except to put in more black devotation cards.
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Yeah, there aren't that many good devotion cards though altogether. In a blue devotion deck the only blue devotion cards you would have are master of waves and god of thassa, and nobody says anything about the amount of devotion cards in that deck. It practically ruled standard at one point.
well, eberos for a start. you could use him as a final big bomb.
True, but hes basically just a worse underworld connections. The 5/7 indestructible is really nice but imo desecration demon is a stronger 4 drop.
If I did play an erebos it would be against control decks where drawing the extra cards helps you keep card advantage.
then what about rescue from the underworld for bouncing/reviving your grey merchants?
That is a good idea. It would also make the gray merchants more of a valid card to build around and still let you keep the black aggro shell with gray merchant.
true, but then some way of getting mana would be needed to maintain aggro.
Right but all the cards in your hand are good after the start because lands are sacs to pack rats, bloodsoaked champions are stickable threats, gray merchant is good if you have board state and blocks a lot of stuff etc., herald of torments are bestowable, desecration demon is always a good draw, and so is removal. I agree though, a card like knight of the white orchid in black would make black devotion such a strong deck. It has solid 1 drops, 3 drops, desecration demon/erebos, and gray merchants at the bigger slots but the 2 drop isn't a good slot. I suppose it has removal but it'd be better to just get strong devotion on board with a good body. Bloodghast is the best but they're expensive.
I was thinking of a form of land control, locking down the opponent's lands to make them less usable? desecrated ground is a good card**possibly not desecrated ground but contaminated ground as card name.
Its desecrated earth I think? Yeah its possible.
Specter just isn't that good in modern...Better off running gatekeeper of malakir or phyrexian obliterater.You may also want (x) urborgs, ghost quarters and maybe a couple of nykthos(1-2)
Thanks for the comments, but this is more just a post thing of what I would play at the kitchen table and I'm trying to keep it on a budget. If it wasn't budget i'd play bloodghasts and gatekeepers
Just added gatekeepers. Phyrexian obliterator's are insane for this deck but they cost a lot and I'm trying to keep it on a budget. I could make the version I'd use in modern no budget if you'd like. The cards I consider usable in modern would be bloodsoaked champion, maybe lifebane against the right deck (very good against GW Aggro obviously), gray merchant, and maybe desecration demon although its very bad against token and creature aggro decks.
I never understood why they have such a price tag, I love them because how cool they are, but they don't see play in ANY competitive decks...thought they were cheaper than that lol
lol no problem there is a deck (or was a deck, not sure) that used a bunch of insane all swamp mana cost creature + 1 or 2 gray merchants and played a midrange insane removal/ gray merchant for the win deck. It looked pretty sweet.
I know decks have tried to use them, and I would LOVE for them to be good, just any deck that has tried hasn't put up any good numbers(or at least consistently put up good numbers)I always look back to it every time a set comes out hoping it got more support.
Haha. Can I get a like btw? Trying to generate more discussion around the black devotion archetype as I think it could be a really strong deck.
Not a problem, I think its only a few cards off of being a modern viable deck so even collecting this shell could maybe land you a mono-b modern deck a few sets down the road for a budget.It's obviously great for casual lol.
Definitely great for casual lol
Dross HarvesterAshenmoor Gouger could fit the 3 slot nicely and they don't die to bolt.Dross obviously is much better vs white lol
Ashenmoor gouger is very good. I like geralf's messenger more however because it stays on the battlefield which contributes to devotion and even if they kill it with removal it gives you card advantage because they had to use 2 cards to kill 1 card of yours.
Fulminator mage is good against some decks in modern.
messenger is good, was jsut trying to stick with the more budget choices haha