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Mono-black midrange, with creature control and graveyard recursion. Named it after the band Death's opening song on the album "Sound of Perseverance."Rock on metal fiends \m/
Try and tutor up creatures like gravecrawler and bloodghast with buried alive. if exhume is in your opening hand w/buried alive, target a fatty as well but no more than one. thrull has a neat combo with messenger, and extort gives you long game inevitability. liquimetal coating lets you make anything a phlyactery or give any of your creatures protection from magus of the abyss. avatar of woe, sheoldred, and mikaeus are late game bombs, as they will have spent their removal all on your obliterators hopefully. when you have magus out, sacrifice your cheap recurring creatures to keep up the heat. dark rit and cabal coffers should have you churning up multiple threats every turn.
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A few thoughts that may be helpful, I would like to see this deck run at least one or two of each mortivore, and sewer nemesis, both are fantastic black giants that are boosted by graveyards. I would drop both the phyrexian arena and zombie infestation so as to double up on both the black market and the grave pact, or simply triple up on the grave pact. grave pact alone would serve you better than anything. I understand you wanting to include the zombie infestation so as to keep zombies in play for your gravecrawler, however this empties your graveyard which could really hurt you. For zombies a few DIregraf Ghouls/highborn ghouls/Geralf's Messengers would serve you well. or, if you don't mind a high-ish mana cost, Corpse Connoisseur, Mikaeus the Unhallowed would serve this deck extremely well. even endless ranks of the undead or ghoulflesh could be handy.I don't like snuff out seeing as you have no way to regain life...quag sickness is a much better option: does not allow for regeneration, sticks with them if it does not kill them, takes down indestructables and costs less. For the same reason you should drop snuff out, you should drop demon of death's gate. A few other assassiny creatures that could be a major force would be royal assassin and stronghold assassinIn fact, If you would entertain the idea of dropping your liquidmetal coatings and your magus of the abyss, four stronghold assassins would be a dominating force in this deck. I know I gave you a lot to think about, but I really do hope your deck sees some success.
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thanks, i really like the idea of mikaeus and geralf's messengers, i'm gonna try them out. as for the graveyard lhurgoyfs, i'm not a big fan of them. sure they have a chance to be really big, but i've only seen that mechanic successful on two cards, boneyard wurm and tarmogoyf, and one of them needs a lot of self mill to be relevent. as i dont intend to mill myself directly, using the recurring threats of bloodghast and gravecrawler is much more effective than putting all my eggs in one basket so to speak. i will double up on the pacts and magus, so i can have a more consistent board presence, and the reason i'm not going to drop snuff out is because of their usefullness when i am tapped out. a free doomblade is a free doomblade. and yes i will drop the demon, it's too gimmicky. as for indestructibles, i do have obliterator and my own indestructible in the lich, so they are critical for my game plan. that is also why i wont drop the liquimetal coatings, because they are so powerful with lich and magus. one last thing, assassins are awesome, but i dont need anymore creature kill, snuff out and magus are perfect at keeping my enemy's creature board light. thanks for the response, and i'm glad you like the deck!