Dark Side

Standard* Aggro Mono-Black

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Creature (27)

• 4x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 4x Gnarled Scarhide
• 4x Grim Haruspex
• 4x Herald of Torment
• 3x Mardu Skullhunter
• 4x Pain Seer
• 4x Tormented Hero

Land (21)

• 21x Swamp

Artifact (1)

• 1x Hall of Triumph

Instant (4)

• 2x Bile Blight
• 2x Hero's Downfall

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Thoughtseize

Unknown (3)

• 3x Mogis's Marauders

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Creature (2)

• 1x Master of the Feast
• 1x Ruthless Ripper

Instant (1)

• 1x Feast of Dreams

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DECK SUMMARY

Mono-Black aggro uses cheap, efficient creatures such as Herald of Torment and Gnarled Scarhide , disruption such as Thoughtseize and Lifebane Zombie, and cheap, efficient removal to clear the way and get in for tons of damage quick. With Thoughtseize and tons of bestow creatures this deck is very resilient to control, it can race other aggro decks quite well, and it's removal combined with Mogis's Marauders can beat mid range decks.

CARD OVERVIEW

THE CREATURES

1 Drops

Tormented Hero : A 2/1 for 1 is the big thing, though heroic is relevant with all the bestow creatures.

Gnarled Scarhide : Also a 2/1 for 1, bestow can pump one of my creatures or act as pseudo removal by making an opponents creature unable to block.

Rakdos Cackler : A 2/2 for 1. Not much else.

2 Drops

Spiteful Returned : Essentially a 3/1 bestow that can only kill x/1s. Though the fact it deals 2 no matter what is nice.

Pain Seer: Generates card advantage and is a Grizzly Bears , which is the 3rd best card in the game (behind Lord Storm Crow and Chimney Imp ).

3 Drops

Herald of Torment : Aggressively costed as a 3/3 flying for 3, it's drawback barely matters, and it can be bestowed late game to get than Pain Seer in the air to get some extra card advantage.

Mogis's Marauders: Breaks board stalls, gives haste, yep.

Lifebane Zombie: Hits lots of things, gives information, nice evasiveness, but isn't good in quite a few match ups so only a 2 of.

THE NONCREATURES

THE REMOVAL

Hero's Downfall: Great removal. Unconditional and can hit walkers. Expensive mana wise though, so only a 2 of.

Bile Blight : Hurts other aggro decks that run lots of 4 ofs with <3 toughness. Also has lots of tricks.

Ultimate Price: Nice, cheap removal, hits a lot of cards. What else is there to say?

THE DISRUPTION

Thoughtseize: Awesome card.

The... Others

Hall of Triumph : +1/+1 to everything is nice.

+1 if you feel like it.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.86
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Nice