No Man's Land: Horobi, Death's Wail EDH

Commander / EDH* Control Mono-Black

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Creature (22)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Masticore
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dauthi Embrace
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients

Sorcery (15)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Power Matrix
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (2)

• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Desert
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 25x Swamp
• 1x Tower of the Magistrate
• 1x Urborg
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sorin Markov

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Sideboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Summon the Pack

Creature (1)

• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Instant (1)

• 1x Booster Tutor

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Sorcery (4)

• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Neverending Torment

Creature (3)

• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Triskelion

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Revel in Riches

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So, after four years not updating on Tapped Out, I've decided to bring my Horobi list in line with what I'm currently running. Now people can see the current version of the deck and any comments I get will be for what I'm actually playing! Woo!

The deck is called "No Man's Land" because it plays like a description of WWI trench warfare reads. You wait for enemies to appear, and when they do, Horobi is waiting in the metaphorical machine gun nest, turning any effect that targets another creature into a kill spell to gun them down. For the most part, I prefer permanents that Horobi can use more than once to instants or sorceries that sweep the board once and are then gone, but I've made a few exceptions for cards that get around indestructibility, do something else in addition to sweeping creatures, or are simply incredibly efficient. Once everything's been thoroughly mutilated and you've bought some build up time, you finish things with a combination of big, hard to kill creatures and potentially massive X cost spells.

There are lots of high mana cost cards here, but this deck doesn't so much have a mana ramp so much as it has a mana booster rocket ready to carry it straight to the moon. I may lose one or two of my mana boosters, yes. Between Black Market, Doubling Cube, Cabal Coffers, Nirkana Revenant, Crypt Ghast, Magus of the Coffers and Caged Sun, I'm not worried. Sol Ring and Arcane Signet don't even count; they're basically lands.

The deck suffers from a couple of obvious weaknesses. Indestructible creatures and shroud/hexproof are thorns in my side, and as with all monoblack decks, artifact and enchantment removal is scarce. I do have answers for all of the above in the deck, but it's something to be mindful of when deciding which opponent(s) to focus on, since tutors you spend on answers are generally not tutors you spend on winning. The other, obvious weakness is that the deck wrecks creatures but can't do much about spells on the stack, meaning it can't keep up in a cEDH meta. But cEDH is cancer, so I don't really care. (For more on my attitude towards Commander as SRS BSNS, see the uncards I have ready to swap in whenever I feel like buying booster packs midgame.)

Comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 1 Mythic Rares 40 - 2 Rares 11 - 1 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.24
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander (Not Mine), EDH, EDH, Mean Things