Mono Black Infect

Modern

iloled

Creature (6)

• 4x Phyrexian Crusader
• 2x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (24)

• 2x Cathedral of War
• 4x Inkmoth Nexus
• 17x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Phyrexian Arena

Artifact (4)

• 1x Lashwrithe
• 2x Runechanter's Pike
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (15)

• 2x Disfigure
• 4x Dismember
• 2x Doom Blade
• 4x Funeral Charm
• 3x Go for the Throat

Sorcery (8)

• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 2x Mutilate
• 3x Raven's Crime

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Sideboard

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Illness in the Ranks

Artifact (7)

• 4x Nihil Spellbomb
• 3x Pithing Needle

Instant (6)

• 2x Bile Blight
• 4x Extirpate

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Hi all,

My take on Mono Black infect.
I love playing mono black control, and i recently (yup) stumbled upon the mono green infect idea.
I instantly started thinking about mono black control with infect as one of the win conditions and this is what i came up with.

Card explanations and reasoning:

Creatures:

• Phyrexian Crusader - Protection from Exile Path to Exile (white) and red burn with infect and first strike makes for a formidable creature. Since infect basically adds -x/-x counters to a creature, this one can take creatures up to 3/x without a problem.

• Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon - This card is what got me into this deck to begin with, it's just plain awesome, but make sure you play it at the right time (usually, make sure you can regen it when needed), this baby is a win con all on its own.

Instants:

• Disfigure - 1 mana for -2/-2 is quite awesome to get rid of threats early on regardless of color / type.

• Dismember - I utterly love this card, gets rid of really though creatures like Polukranos, World Eater early on (can cast with 1 mana) and still holds true late game.

• Doom Blade - Simple quick removal.

• Funeral Charm - Possibly one of the strongest cards here, can pump your infect creature, or remove a x/1 creature from an opponent, make your infect win con unblockable or just make opponent lose a card (at instant speed...).

• Go for the Throat - Awesome spot removal.

Sorceries:

• Inquisition of Kozilek - Hand disruption, not much to add about this one.

• Mutilate - Sweep the board clean, disregarding hexproof and anything else, pretty useful against token swarms etc.

• Raven's Crime - Awesome, especially combined with Liliana of the Dark Realms, keep your opponent without cards.

Artifacts:

• Lashwrithe - A win con all on its own that doesn't rely on infect due to it being a living weapon, also used to obviously pump the infect creatures up.

• Runechanter's Pike - First strike? yes please. to top that off since this is control our GY is probably full of instant and sorceries that we traded 1x1 during play.

• Whip of Erebos - Not too sure about this one yet, but so far so good, gets you back some well needed life incase opponent managed to nuke you down hard (or you had to dismember a lot with paying life), also brings back our infect creatures from GY for a win swoop.

Planeswalkers:

• Liliana of the Dark Realms - Mana fetch, spot removal and win con (by giving +x/+x to our infect creatures), also, makes sure you have a land to discard for Raven's Crime

Lands:

• Cathedral of War - Quite handy when you only have 1 creature on the board, and considering we only run 6 creatures, that will most likely be the case.

• Inkmoth Nexus - No need to explain this one for an infect deck.

• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth - Turns everything into swamps in addition to other types, awesome for Lashwrithe and generally lets us cast all our stuff.

Idea behind the deck:

As any mono black control, the idea is to keep enemy creatures off the board using removal spells, and fully disrupt enemy casting by disrupting his hand with discards.

Deck is under heavy construction,
Thoughts, suggestions and comments are always welcome.

Cheers,
iloled aka xSic

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 7 Rares 14 - 4 Uncommons 7 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.39
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	A4