Mono-black Ninja deck. Been roughly this way since Kamigawa standard.
I eventually plan on swapping out
Keening Banshee
, a
Tormented Soul
, a
Befoul
and a Victim of Night for four Dismember.
The goal is to pair the hand disruption of Duress with the board control of spells like Victim of Night. Between the two, you ought to be able to land hand-disruption creatures (either
Chittering Rats
or Liliana's Specter).
If you've kept the board relatively open, you can swing with one of the creatures, returning it using Ninjitsu, and then hit them with an
Okiba-Gang Shinobi
.
If you get to replay the Chittering Rats or Liliana's Specter from it, you ought to have crippled their hand enough to win. Even if you only hit from a
Dauthi Slayer
or a
Tormented Soul
, you ought to have enough of an advantage to press on.
We run Sign in Blood to keep up the pressure as we start to run low on cards, Bojuka Bog for main deck graveyard disruption, and a singleton Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni because in some match-ups it can be game-winning, and in many having a 5/4 regenerate can win entire games on its own - especially when paired with our removal to act as board clear.
The sideboard is actually mostly there to transition to a multiplayer deck, as we also turn into a black devotion deck.
