"Baneslayer Black"

Pioneer Aggro Mono-Black Suicide Black

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1-drops (8)

• 4x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 4x Thoughtseize

2-drops (12)

• 4x Bitter Triumph
• 4x Caustic Bronco
• 4x Tainted Adversary

3-drops (8)

• 4x Midnight Reaper
• 4x Spawn of Mayhem

4-drops (8)

• 4x Archfiend of the Dross
• 4x Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Lands (24)

• 4x Castle Locthwain
• 4x Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 14x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 4x Collective Brutality
• 4x Duress
• 4x Fatal Push
• 3x Go Blank

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Maybeboard

Other (142)

• 4x Agonizing Remorse
• 2x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bonecrusher Giant
• 4x Cavern of Souls
• 2x Damping Sphere
• 4x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 4x Demonic Embrace
• 4x Dread Wanderer
• 4x Gifted Aetherborn
• 4x Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 4x Graf Reaver
• 4x Graveyard Marshal
• 4x Graveyard Trespasser  ^Flip
• 1x Hagra Broodpit  ^Flip
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 4x Herald of Torment
• 2x Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 4x Hunted Bonebrute
• 4x Knight of Dusk's Shadow
• 3x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 4x Leyline of the Void
• 4x Liliana of the Veil
• 4x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 2x Mausoleum Secrets
• 4x Murderous Rider
• 4x Phyrexian Arena
• 4x Phyrexian Fleshgorger
• 4x Pitiless Horde
• 1x Rakdos, the Muscle
• 2x Reckoner Bankbuster
• 4x Roiling Vortex
• 4x Rotting Regisaur
• 4x Scytheclaw Raptor
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 2x Sorin the Mirthless
• 4x Stingerback Terror
• 4x Sulfurous Springs
• 4x Tenacious Underdog *f-etch*
• 2x Unlicensed Hearse
• 1x Vein Ripper
• 4x Virtue of Persistence

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Tired of playing the same generically powerful cards in every Constructed format? Me too.

Here's a fast, yet grindy build of Mono Black Aggro designed to take maximum advantage of the powerful "modal spells" in the archetype (including Graveyard Marshal, Tainted Adversary, Tenacious Underdog, Virtue of Persistence, Spawn of Mayhem, and Phyrexian Fleshgorger), incidental lifegain (Gifted Aetherborn, Graveyard Trespasser  , Phyrexian Fleshgorger), and the occasional free win from Bloodletter of Aclazotz. As the title suggests, this is also a deck that plays a critical mass of threats of the type that Magic theorist and Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin has called "Baneslayers," after the famous Baneslayer Angel—i.e., threats that win the game if not dealt with, but trade evenly on cards if they are answered immediately. And yes, casting Archfiend of the Dross absolutely rules.

Recent iterations of the deck are a bit more midrangely than before (although it is still very much an aggressive, combat-step oriented build) given my dissatisfaction with the 1-drop creatures in the format and the NEAR UBIQUITY of exile-based creature removal which hugely hamstrings most of the archetype's recursive creatures.

This deck is mostly for fun, but I like to take my fun seriously: whenever I play it, Motorhead's "We are the Road Crew" plays in my head the whole time.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Pioneer 8 months ago
Date added	11 months
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 4 Rares 5 - 11 Uncommons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed