Bastille Persecution

Modern

Cirrus

Creature (15)

• 3x Abyssal Persecutor
• 4x Gatekeeper of Malakir
• 1x Grave Titan
• 3x Nantuko Shade
• 1x Skinrender
• 2x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (24)

• 22x Swamp
• 2x Tectonic Edge

Artifact (4)

• 2x Mimic Vat
• 2x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (6)

• 2x Consume the Meek
• 4x Doom Blade

Sorcery (11)

• 2x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Duress
• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 2x Mind Sludge
• 3x Sign in Blood

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 2x Vampire Hexmage

Instant (3)

• 3x Grasp of Darkness

Sorcery (9)

• 2x Duress
• 2x Marsh Casualties
• 3x Memoricide
• 2x Sadistic Sacrament

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Mono-black build based off copious removal, slight disruption, and beating face with Abyssal Persecutor and company. If the fast assault is foiled, Wurmcoil Engine provides a bit of insurance.

Currently, this build stomps all but the fastest mono-red concoctions, flattens control decks without an extremely heavy investment in counters (and does fairly well against the counter-heavy ones as well), and offers about as much resistance as a mewling infant to Overwhelming Stampede.dec. It's also not fantastic against Eldrazi Ramp, but the match is at least (barely) winnable. The same is true for Valakut, except it's easier. Elves is usually winnable, as I can usually survive long enough to draw one of my two Consume the Meeks, and after that, the game is basically over. I still wish I had an answer to a relatively early Eldrazi Monument, but there really doesn't seem to be one.

Possible Changes:

*The addition of Corrupt somewhere in the 75, simply because having only 7 outs to Persecutor is cutting things a little thin. The fact that it'll help me win games out of nowhere is also helpful.

*The addition of red dual lands, and Pyroclasm maindeck. This will shore up my weakness to green decks in general, help me in the case of a fast vamp build in which my Doom Blades are useless, and make Quest WW almost unloseable.

Date added	14 years
Last updated	14 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 14 - 6 Rares 14 - 4 Uncommons 8 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Copy Clone, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B