Hi all! I've been working on this deck for over a month now, and am ready to share it with the world. I don't usually play mono black, but this deck is way too fun.
This is a torment/curse standard deck. Ultimately, Torment of Hailfire serves as the big win mechanic and Treasure Map
helps to stabilize the board and ramp into it. This deck has lots of removal such as Walk the Plank, Fatal Push, Vraska's Contempt to hold off your opponent long enough to get a few curses down or smack them with a Torment of Hailfire. On that note, the curses include 4 Trespasser's Curse, 3 Torment of Scarabs, and 2 Cruel Reality (1 mainboard, 1 sideboard for a control matchup).
To compliment the removal, there are 4 Bone Pickers. It's super satisfying to tap three mana, Fatal Push a creature, and drop two Bone Pickers. 4 Gifted Aetherborns help slow down your opponent's creature while gaining you a bit of life.
The most recent addition to the deck is 3 Gonti, Lord of Luxury, which has proven extremely important for this deck's consistency. With this simple mana base and potential ramp, casting your opponents creature's or spells in addition to your own while also laying down a 2/3 deathtouch is awesome!
This deck has won me 3 out of 4 matches at FNM, and won me 3 matches out of 7 at a Grand Prix (my first one!!!) with an earlier version of the deck (before the addition of Gonti, Lord of Luxury).
I'm open to suggestions and am excited to share this deck with everyone!
Note: this is not and never will be a discard deck. I initially built discard mechanics into the deck, but it hurt the consistency horribly, and I have since completely abandoned the idea.
UPDATE
I'm considering adding Yahenni, Undying Partisan to the deck. Thoughts???
Thanks for taking a look!
