Mono Black

Pauper Budget Casual Control Goodstuff Lifegain Mono-Black

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Instant (17)

• 4x Cast Down
• 2x Deadly Dispute
• 4x Defile
• 2x Echoing Decay
• 1x Fanatical Offering
• 1x Geth's Verdict
• 1x Suffocating Fumes
• 2x Unexpected Fangs

Creature (14)

• 2x Bone Picker
• 2x Crypt Rats
• 2x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 2x Gingerbrute
• 2x Grimclaw Bats
• 2x Gurmag Angler
• 2x Thorn of the Black Rose

Land (21)

• 2x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 14x Swamp
• 2x Vault of Whispers
• 2x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 2x Foreboding Fruit
• 4x Sign in Blood

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Bog Raiders
• 1x Lazotep Reaver
• 1x Merrow Bonegnawer
• 1x Nath's Buffoon

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Phyresis

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Arms of Hadar
• 2x Choking Sands
• 2x Duress
• 1x Feed the Swarm

Instant (2)

• 1x Debt to the Kami
• 1x Suffocating Fumes

Artifact (2)

• 2x Nihil Spellbomb

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My mono black deck which I've been playing and developing for years. Some cards have been in the deck since day 1, others have been added later. Some cards are staples, others aren't. This is my alternative for the most commonly played mono black Pauper control deck. Basically it's a goodstuff control deck with a little bit of everything.

Some changes I made: I replaced Sultai Scavenger with Gurmag Angler. Before it was 4 Foreboding Fruit and 0 Sign in Blood, now it's 2-4. I saw the Crypt Rats - Unexpected Fangs combo and I think it's very cool. I really liked Dross Golem because of the cost reduction but I kept getting told it's more of an aggro card, and it's true, it doesn't do much besides being a creature with some evasion. I wanted to cut Gingerbrute but adding Monarch to the deck made it have a new use, so I ended up keeping it. Also added more draw spells because the deck only works if it can maintain card advantage, obviously.

Latest change in summer, 2024 : the deck always had Divest in mainboard. First 4 then 3. Lately I didn't like having it too much, too often it ended up being useless so I decided to have even more removal and draw instead. Added 2 other Defiles and 1 Offering. At the latest event with this deck I had the 2nd place from 8 so it looks like the update made the deck better.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Food, Map, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie Army 0/0 B