Heated Devotion To Black

Standard BR (Rakdos)

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Creature (21)

• 2x Abhorrent Overlord
• 3x Desecration Demon
• 2x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 4x Pack Rat
• 3x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 4x Rakdos Cackler

Land (22)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 4x Rakdos Guildgate
• 12x Swamp

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Dark Prophecy

Artifact (2)

• 2x Whip of Erebos

Instant (4)

• 2x Hero's Downfall
• 2x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (9)

• 4x Dreadbore
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 4x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 2x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Sanguine Bond
• 2x Underworld Connections

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

Instant (2)

• 2x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Mizzium Mortars
• 2x Slaughter Games

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Doing a black devotion deck with some red.

It's pretty much a standard mono black. It gets a little interesting with a few additions. Here would be an ideal setup.Turn one, Play land, drop Shadow Ally Denizen

Turn Two,Play land, drop rat or hold onto a kill spell for aggro

Turn Three,Play land, drop Underworld Connect or Dark Prohecy

Turn Four,Possible land, if not make a rat, if rat was killed perhaps kill spell, hold out until turn 6 or so... if you drew another land however you can drop a desecration demon, whip of erebus or Purphoros, God of the forge. (Wait, what the...? why is a red devotion card in here... eh, getting there.)

Turn FiveLand... maybe shrine to Nyx... eh? devotion is at possible 8 or 9... eh, let's stick with a realistic number like 5. Cast either Gray Merchant of Ashphodel OR Abhorrent Overlord... Oh yes. Overlord drops into play, adding 2 more to devotion bringing it up to 7ish, you get 7 tokens. Purphorus starts whacking it in the corner, boom. 14 damage. Or deal 7 and gain 7 from Gary... meanwhile purphorus does another 2... so, eh not all that bad. worst comes to worse you use the shrine mana to drop your hand to the pack rats and purphorus does his thing when rats begin to get bigger and more beastly.

Eh... I digress... It's all just a prototype. I may add some Shred Freaks... Take out the cacklers, just for the sake of adding red bodies to get some red shrine mana in case I don't pull any lands I want.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 23 - 12 Rares 11 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Copy Clone, Harpy 1/1 B