The Black Deck

Standard Burn Demons Devotion Discard Humans RBW (Mardu) Zombie

LeeFullDavis316

Creature (20)

• 1x Black Oak of Odunos
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Herald of Torment
• 3x Mogis's Marauder
• 4x Rakdos Cackler
• 4x Rakdos Shred-Freak
• 1x Spiteful Returned
• 2x Tormented Hero
• 2x Xathrid Necromancer

Land (24)

• 24x Swamp

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Aspect of Gorgon
• 1x Gift of Orzhova

Artifact (2)

• 1x Gorgon's Head
• 1x Staff of the Death Magus

Instant (11)

• 1x Bile Blight
• 2x Cremate
• 3x Doom Blade
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 2x Pharika's Cure
• 2x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Duress

Unknown (1)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodels

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Erebos's Emissary
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Spiteful Returned
• 1x Tormented Hero

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Gift of Orzhova

Instant (5)

• 1x Bile Blight
• 1x Cremate
• 2x Dark Betrayal
• 1x Fated Return

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Duress
• 1x March of the Returned
• 1x Mind Rot

Unknown (1)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodels

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (14)

• 6x Forest
• 4x Island
• 4x Mountain

Artifact (1)

• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (8)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 3x Dissolve
• 4x Shock

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This is the deck i got when i first started playing MTG and since then have had a few wins and losses under my belt! (Twas the event deck that was in the Born of Theros set if anyones interested :) )

The main strategy of my deck (personally) is to summon waves of cheap, expendable monsters like Rakdos Cackler, Rakdos Shred-Freak, Tormented Hero and Mogis Maruder (once those are out, the games usually won unless they take out Mogis on the turn its been summon OR i am up against another Black-Mana player!) while using cheap Instant/Sorcery cards like Duress, Doomblade and Cremate (one of my favorite combos is to destroy an opponents monster and then use Cremate to prevent them from reviving it while being able to draw a card!). Should the opponent not bow to the first wave of creatures, then i'd turn it up a notch and provide powerful boosts such as Spiteful Return, Erebos Emissary, Herald of Torment, Staff of the Death-Magus, Gray Merchant of Asphodel and even Desecration Demon to finish off the opposition!

My personal combos, in addition to the Destroy and Cremate, are:

Rakdos Cackler x 3 + Rakdos Shred-Freak x + Mogis Marauder + Xathrid Necromancer

Summon a wave of monsters and use Mogis to grant them Intimidate and Haste - Should the Human Creatures die they come back as Zombies!

Herald of Torment + Desecration Demon + Grey Merchant of Asphodel x 2 + 3-6 swamps

High-Mana Devotion allows me to take advantage of Asphodels give and take Life ability

Erebos Emissary + Desecration Demon + Fated Return

*Discard my stronger cards using Erebos Emissary and then revive it with Fated Return to gain Indestructible; bit pricey mana-wise but it certainly gets the job done *

While i am extremely happy with my deck and the combos i can do, eventually someone will notice what i do and then counter it with something worse, so is theres a way to increase its potential? Would it help if i use another type of Mana, like Red or White to compliment some of my wilder effects i tend to get?

I look forward to the feedback :D

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 4 - 2 Rares 17 - 6 Uncommons 15 - 6 Commons
Cards	62
Avg. CMC	2.11
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B