Casual Mono-Black-Control

by jon23516 on 10 March 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Instants (6)


Artifacts (3)


Enchantments (6)


Land (20)

Sideboard (22 cards)

Sorceries (9)

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Deck Description

Casual Play. Partially updated. Work in progress...

Deck Tags

  • Black
  • Mono

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Deck Format


Vintage

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Casual Mono-Black-Control

In my goldfishing and a couple sample games I'm struggling with the mix of Swamps with the Cabal Coffers and swamp-cycling T-Bomb. I don't think I should be having the problems I'm having. Perhaps trying to cycle the Twisted Abomination is a waste of time/mana/turns and I should focus on stalling my opponent and getting the Vampire Nighthawk swinging every turn.

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Posted 10 March 2013 at 09:38

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Is this a budget build? If not, I would highly recommend Thoughtseize over Duress and rockin some Liliana's Caress or Megrim's over trying to tapping cabal coffers and feeding Exsanguinate. I play a lot of black, and I've got some solid mono black control decks, some are even tournament quality. If you want more advice let me know, feel free to take a look at my most recent deck Sacrificial Extraction and my older mono black control decks for ideas.

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Posted 10 March 2013 at 09:47

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I agree with drumhead. You need a different or at least a secondary win condition. You are going to run out of steam really quickly probably around turn 3 or 4 as its built. I get this is casual and probably budget but I think you need to rethink you objective with this deck.
Liliana's Caress would be a good option. Geralf's Messenger would be good. Board wipes such a Mutilate would be excellent. I think 4 cabal coffers is too many. i would go with no more then 3. Id drop killing glare for murder. Twisted Abomination really should go. If you are worried about land then just add land instead. Arena is better then sign in blood because its continuous card advantage. a life is worth a card almost always. Especially when you are trying to control. Dont be afraid of losing life you got a lot of it. Having overwhelming card advantage is more important.
Other things that could work really well in this would be Obliterator. That way if they get something out you can get rid of it. Phyrexian. Also if you really want to cripple a deck add some surgical extractions. Nothing is more devastating then yanking a win condition from your opponents opening hand then extracting all of them from the game.
Hope this helps

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Posted 10 March 2013 at 10:08

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Thank you guys, I'll be proxying this up and trying the out. Some good choices here, don't know how I missed some of these; perhaps because I only play more seriously from Odyssey through the end of Mirrodin block, so I haven't kept up with all the newer cards. I just had to re-read Phyrexian Obliterator, that card looks amazing: an under-costed creature with trample and makes my opponent permanents? What's not to love!! My original build had two Visara the Dreadful and 2 Kokusho Evening Star but the mana issue was screwing everything up so I dropped them. Otherwise, yes, Coffers + Exsanguinate was my finisher. Had planned that Vampire Nighthawk and Ravenous Rats would nibble away at the opponent until I was ready to finish them. Updated deck list soon...

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Posted 10 March 2013 at 21:27

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