Mono-Black Merchant

Modern* Casual Devotion Mono-Black

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Creature (22)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 4x Blood Artist
• 4x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 3x Brain Maggot
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 3x Nantuko Husk
• 2x Phage the Untouchable
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Artifact (4)

• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 2x Endless Whispers
• 1x Palace Siege

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Languish

Land (20)

• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 17x Swamp

Instant (8)

• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 4x Tragic Slip

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

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Sideboard

Artifact (4)

• 2x Pithing Needle
• 2x Relic of Progenitus

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 3x Thoughtseize

Creature (2)

• 2x Erebos, God of the Dead

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This is used for casual play. The idea is to drain the opponent out with Blood Artist and other cards.

Tragic Slip and Grasp of Darkness are the removal here to get around large creatures for cheap and to ignore Indestructible.

Multiple ways to destroy your own creatures while gaining life and forcing the opponent to lose board presence.

This deck works well against Burn and Aggro decks as it can outpace them, and reverse the life loss.

Sideboard needs work to do better against other archetypes.

This works really really well in my local meta, aside from being completely blown out by Elves and Scapeshift when experiencing bad draws.

I'm mainly looking for ways to keep the general theme together whike cutting back on the high costing cards, and patching up the deck's inherent weaknesses.

Also: Phage + Endless Whispers is ridiculously fun.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 4 Mythic Rares 14 - 3 Rares 12 - 3 Uncommons 11 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited