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Control Black Devotion
Wescoe's Artical on tcgplayer about the deck. http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11648In order to pose the right threat, you want to dodge the prevalent removal spells of the format as much as possible. In this case we are dealing with:[[Bile Blight]][[Devour Flesh]][[Hero's Downfall]][[Pharika's Cure]] SB: Dark Betrayal SB: Doom Blade SB: Drown in Sorrow SB: More Pharika's CureI'm surprised [[Bile Blight]] has not taken off yet, considering its efficiency at taking out [[Pack Rat]] in the mirror, but this list ran at least ran one copy.Given the variety of removal spells, it will be impossible to blank all of them, but it will be possible to minimize the effectiveness of many of them and thus often leave the black deck with the wrong answers in hand to our right threats, assuming we are able to correctly ascertain the best aggressive strategy.The one measure that stands out to me when looking at [[Pharika's Cure]] and [[Drown in Sorrow]] is the two-toughness requirement of each. This means that picking threats with three or more toughness dodges nearly half their removal spells.It's hard to dodge [[Hero's Downfall]] and [[Devour Flesh]] without swarming the board with smaller creatures, which unfortunately plays into the aforementioned removal spells. So that strategy won't work.An alternate strategy available would be to gain some sort of value when an opponent one-for-one's your creature with a removal spell. Creatures with enters the battlefield effects would be good choices. Unfortunately there aren't a whole lot of those in Standard right now.So what does Standard offer the aggressive player in terms of dodging black removal?As we mentioned already, swarming won't work because we want our threats to have three or more toughness, and preferably four or more to dodge [[Bile Blight]]. So what does this? Well, there is [[Brimaz, King of Oreskos]], but he dies to [[Hero's Downfall]] and [[Doom Blade]]. This is at least a start, but where do we go from here?[[Pack Rat]] Early for an early on creature. Also, for the copy later game.[[Thoughtseize]] Early on to disrupt the opponent.[[Pharika's Cure]] Early to mid game creature removal. -2 to creature and +2 life gain.Lay down a couple of [[Nightveil Specter]]'s before [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]] for the life devotion. Use of [[Desecration Demon]] to not rely on solely devotion and get the opponent to sack a creature. [[Erebos, God of the Dead]] to destroy opponent's life gaining. [[Hero's Downfall]] A little high cost but the ability to kill a planeswalker or a power creature is needed.[[Devour Flesh]] is great if you get your opponent down to one or two powerful creatures and you gain life because of it.Use of [[Underworld Connections]] for mid and late game draw power.[[Temple of Deceit]] for Scry.[[Duress]] and [[Lifebane Zombie]] for help with opponent's hand.
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