Underworld Caress

by Razakel on 05 August 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Creatures (8)


Sorceries (4)


Instants (8)


Planeswalkers (1)


Enchantments (8)


Land (20)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (6)


Planeswalkers (1)


Enchantments (2)

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How to Play

There are various ways to play with this deck:

Turn 1: Swamp + Dark Ritual + Underworld Dreams
Turn 2: Swamp + Liliana's Caress
Turn 3: Swamp + Anvil of Bogardan
Turn 4: (Swamp) + Ensnaring Bridge / Swamp + Witchbane Orb

From there just go on discarding your opponent (and yourself) with Wrench Mind, Nezumi Shortfang and Augur of Skulls to keep him from using anything or attacking adding The Rack along for extra damage.

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Turn 1: Swamp + Dark Ritual + Underworld Dreams
Turn 2: Swamp + Anvil of Bogardan / Howling Mine
Turn 3: Swamp + Ensnaring Bridge
Turn 4: Swamp + Teferi's Puzzle Box

From here on just add Witchbane Orb and keep filling the opponents hand with cards using Sign in Blood and he/she should had lost soon after.

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Turn 1: Swamp + The Rack
Turn 2: Swamp + Liliana's Caress
Turn 3: Swamp + Anvil of Bogardan
Turn 4: (Swamp) + Ensnaring Bridge / Swamp + Wtichbane Orb

Go on discarding your opponent (and yourself) with Augur of Skulls, Nezumi Shortfang, Wrench Mind to deal damage to your opponent as well as his/her hand and keeping him from attacking.

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There are various other combos you can do with this deck, just be creative :)
Dark ritual will help you speed up the process, it can also be used at the second turn with 2 swamps in play to speed things up, allowing you to place Liliana's Caress + Anvil of Bogardan/ Wrench Mind/ Augur of Skulls.
You can do some control with Dash Hopes.
You can also use Leyline of the Void and Grafdigger's Cage if your opponent's strategy relies much on using the graveyard (and/or play from/serach the Deck)

Note: Augur of Skulls can be used as a cheap efficient barrier that you can regenerate in you need some defence, along with Nezumi, although the second isn't that great to lose.

Note 2: Both Ensnaring Bridge and Witchbane Orb are used to defend yourself from damage, although you can switch them with the sidebord in case your opponent's focus is primarily direct damage or charging with creatures. I enjoy having both in deck just in case.

Note 3: You can also replace Wrench Mind with Himn to Tourach.

Note 4: to make it playable in Modern you need to switch:
- 2x Anvil of Bogardan -> 2x Howling Mine
- 4x Dark Ritual -> Liliana of the Dark Realms + 3x Sign in Blood
- Cabal Coffers -> Swamp

This will slow down and cut some combos on the deck although not that much.
Another option is adding more cards like Duress and alikes instead of Howling Mine and Sign in Blood.

Deck Tags

  • Legacy
  • Modern
  • Discard
  • Mono Black

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

004600

Card Legality

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

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