Controlling the darkness

Standard Budget Control Mono-Black

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Creature (9)

• 4x Bearer of Silence
• 2x Inverter of Truth
• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Risen Executioner

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Land (26)

• 2x Blighted Fen
• 4x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Mage-Ring Network
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Wastes

Instant (8)

• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 3x Murderous Cut
• 1x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Dark Petition
• 4x Duress
• 4x Read the Bones
• 4x Remorseless Punishment
• 2x Ruinous Path

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Ultimate Price
• 2x Warping Wail

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 2x Despise
• 3x Flaying Tendrils
• 2x Infinite Obliteration
• 1x Languish
• 2x Self-Inflicted Wound

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1. Risen Executioner has awesome synergy with Kalitas. Sac the Executioner, buff the Kalitas, return the Executioner, rinse, repeat.
2. Bearer of Silence is hot because we have somewhat poor game against other control decks (especially Esper Dragons), and against those decks, we don't even have to resolve Bearer (he makes them sac a guy when he's CAST) for him to be effective. He's even fairly effective against aggro and midrange decks.
3. Inverter of Truth can turn all of the incredible removal we've played over the course of the game into a surrogate library, and it's especially good in multiples. Play an Inverter while you have one in the yard, and the one in your graveyard will become one of just a few card sin your library. This allows you to essentially loop them, all while constantly recycling key cards.
4. Remorseless Punishment is amazing.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 12 - 4 Rares 11 - 11 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Zombie 2/2 B