Black Devotion Bounce

by tallman227 on 16 January 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (19 cards)

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Deck Description

Have fun bouncing black devotion creatures with ETB abilities. The devotion is of course for the Gray merchant mechanic, which if able to have bounced a few times in a turn can do significant damage.
There is also a decent amount of opponent hand control with this deck. The chittering rats can be returned repeatedly, forcing your opponent to return cards from his/her hand back on top of their deck, essentially negating their next turn draws. The scullers can be bounced when you are unaware of what your opponent is holding, even if you chose to continuously target the same card.

How to Play

Only keep opener hands with at least some sort of way to bounce your creatures at least a couple times. Aside from perhaps the Sculler, as long as you have ways to return your creatures to the battlefield in hand, I would suggest constantly attacking with any available creatures, even if your opponent has big blockers. The attack sometimes gets let through due to your enemy being suspicious of combat tricks. this way you can get as much damage in for when you start bouncing the Garys. Chump blockers should of course be kept against enemy creatures with nasty abilities or strong attack power, as they can be revived with your spells.

As for sideboard, it mostly includes the spectre for more hand control/defence against flyers. The wurm is to add devotion, as well as to deal with enemy creature indestructibility. Aside from that, there are situational counter spells (which no one expects in white/black), to aid in keeping the Bouncing going.

I took the idea for this deck from one that I had previously put together, which involved the same bounce mechanics, but also featured green mana for which was used for Siege rhinos and Thragtusks; however I found that with my lack of expensive land cards, the three coloured deck was often having issues with getting the right colours out when I needed them. The bounce combos were also targeting large casting creatures, so if I was playing anyone with any sort of of counter magic, it felt as though I was beating my head against a wall. I feel like the cutting the green mana, and adding hand control within the deck was essentially what I needed to optimize what I wanted to happen with my deck during a match.

If anyone has any suggestions or comments please share :D

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • ETB
  • Bounce
  • Devotion

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Card Legality

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

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