Budget Life/Death deck

Modern Lifegain Mono-Black

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Creature (20)

• 4x Crypt Ghast
• 4x Disciple of the Vault
• 4x Phylactery Lich
• 4x Quag Vampires
• 4x Will-o'-the-Wisp

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (23)

• 23x Swamp

Artifact (12)

• 4x Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• 4x Elixir of Immortality
• 4x Staff of the Death Magus

Instant (4)

• 4x Dark Ritual

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Sideboard

Creature (14)

• 2x Avatar of Woe
• 2x Herald of Leshrac
• 4x Mortivore
• 2x Reiver Demon
• 4x Thrull Parasite

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Army of the Damned

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Maybeboard

Creature (62)

• 2x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Carnophage
• 4x Dark Confidant
• 4x Dauthi Slayer
• 2x Dread
• 2x Dread Cacodemon
• 4x Gnat Miser
• 2x Griselbrand
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 2x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 2x Massacre Wurm
• 4x Nantuko Shade
• 1x Nightmare
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 2x Pestilence Demon
• 4x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 4x Priest of Gix
• 2x Reaper from the Abyss
• 4x Royal Assassin
• 2x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Tormented Soul
• 4x Typhoid Rats
• 4x Undead Gladiator
• 2x Visara the Dreadful

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 4x Temporal Extortion

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This deck revolves around Crypt Ghast, Chalice of Life  , Elixir of Immortality, and Staff of the Death Magus. Crypt Ghast's ability basically doubles your mana, and is cumulative with multiple copies, making insanely multi-kicked Quag Vampires.

The offensive strategy here is to get to 30 life, and finish it in the next few turns with Chalice of Death. When you summon Phylactery Lich, you just put the phylactery counter on any other artifact you have other than Chalice of Life  , and you'll give the opponent a difficult decision (since normally Phylactery Lich's weakness is removal). Disciple of the Vault is there to make sure that the opponents pay for destroying your artifacts, and it's ability is cumulative with multiple copies on the field, fits well in this deck. Defence is handled by Phylactery Lich, and Will-o'-the-Wisp. Dark Ritual fits pretty well in this deck, as 16 of the other cards are 1 drops, it synergizes well with Staff of the Death Magus and Crypt Ghast's extort. Using dark ritual into a turn 2 Phylactery Lich, is, simply put, HILARIOUS. Liliana of the Dark Realms is there to provide the same things Crypt Ghast does, except the -3 ability on it is amazing for buffing a Phylactery Lich, or even Will-o'-the-Wisp. All of the abilities for Liliana of the Dark Realms mix well with the focus of the deck, and the -6 ability sets you up for Quag Vampires nicely. The offense of this deck is more based on the indestructible 5/5 Phylactery Lich or a heavily multi-kicked Quag Vampires via Crypt Ghast ftw

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 3 Mythic Rares 8 - 8 Rares 16 - 4 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.05
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Zombie 2/2 B