Hadal Depths

Legacy Aggro Combo Control Ramp Reanimator Suicide Black

Dami

Creature (13)

• 1x Avatar of Discord
• 3x Bloodghast
• 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 4x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Instant (12)

• 4x Dark Ritual
• 2x Dash Hopes
• 4x Entomb
• 2x Tragic Slip

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Buried Alive
• 2x Reanimate
• 4x Unearth

Land (23)

• 2x Dark Depths
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 20x Swamp

Artifact (4)

• 4x Expedition Map

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Inkwell Leviathan
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Visara the Dreadful

Artifact (6)

• 2x Ivory Tower
• 2x Pithing Needle
• 2x Spellbook

Land (2)

• 2x Reliquary Tower

Instant (2)

• 2x Funeral Charm

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Alhammarret, High Arbiter
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Void Winnower

Land (1)

• 1x Thespian's Stage

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Black Reanimator Deck: Hadal Depths 5.0

This is a deck that I come up with in a rather strange way since I didn´t plan it at all. During Xmas Eve the owner from the store from where I buy and play Magic decided come up with a surprise tournament for mono black decks only, and since I didn´t had any black deck I just went trough my and a friend collection chose a bunch of black cards join them together and ended up with this deck. I lost the first game because the ratio of the cards were a bit of, but after some minor adjustments I went in a winning ride, and ended up in second place in that tournament with 12 wins, and 4 loses with a deck put together in 15 minutes. So I used the money I got from the prize to buy the cards my friend lent me, and made this deck mine. Hope everyone has fun with it and leave suggestions if you think they can improve this deck.

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Current Combos:

• Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage just use Vampire Hexmage ability to remove all the counters from Dark Depths and summon Marit Lage.
• Dark Ritual + Entomb + Unearth / Dark Ritual + Entomb + Reanimate ( + Swamp ) this combos main purpose is to get Vampire Hexmage into the battlefield as soon as possible if you didn't draw one on your first hand.
• Dark Ritual + Expedition Map ( + Swamp ) this combo main purpose is to get Dark Depths into your hand to make you able to place it battlefield as soon as possible if you didn't draw one on your first hand.
• Bloodghast + Buried Alive + Dark Ritual You can use Buried Alive to send 3xBloodghast from the library to the graveyard and next just play a land to bring them from the graveyard to the battlefield.
• Platinum Emperion + Reanimate you can either use Reanimate to bring Platinum Emperion from the graveyard to battlefield without paying its converted mana cost in life or if Platinum Emperion is already on the field bring others creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield with Reanimate without paying their converted mana cost in life.
• Dark Ritual + Entomb + Reanimate / Buried Alive + Dark Ritual + Reanimate these combos were made to work with the all of the creatures of this deck in the following ways:
  • Avatar of Discord to use its ability of discard 2 cards in your hand if you have cards that you can't cast on it and also as a cheap 5/3 attacker with flying.
  • Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite for its ability to decrease the power of my opponent creatures and shut down bears, low toughness tokens and weenie decks as well as the capability to power up my own creatures.
  • Inkwell Leviathan it's combination of abilities make Inkwell Leviathan a very hard card to remove from the battlefield and a great counter against most of decks.
  • Iona, Shield of Emeria for its ability to completely shut down a colour and this way either render useless any kind of counter measures that a colour ( mainly , and ) could use against this deck or working as a wining condition against most mono-coloured decks by completely shutting down their ability to cast any card.
  • Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur for its ability to let you draw seven cards at the end step of your turn and also for its ability reduce the hand size of your opponent to 0 and this way keeping them under control and removing any problem they could cause you during your turns.
    • Reliquary Tower and Spellbook will work as support cards to Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur ability. This way you can keep all the cards you draw in your hand with no need discard them at end of the turn for having more than 7 cards on your hand, and even if you dont have any of the previous 2 cards on your hand even after Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur ability activates you can always use an Expedition Map ( if you have one in your hand ) to search for one Reliquary Tower as it is a land. Be warned though, because if you already played a land on that turn you won't be to play Reliquary Tower.
    • Ivory Tower will work in combination with either one of the previous two cards ( Ivory Tower + Reliquary Tower / Ivory Tower + Spellbook ) so that you can get some of life you spent to "reanimate" Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur back or just as a sure plus extra life.
  • Platinum Emperion for its ability freeze your life total that makes it a great card to combo with Reanimate as it removes is draw back as well as a way temporary delay games if your opponent is unable to remove it.
  • Sheoldred, Whispering One that has an ability that will work as a free Unearth or Reanimate once a turn with no negative side effects. Its second ability is also very helpful as it makes your opponent sacrifice a creature every turn. This is a good stalling ability on early turns to hold your opponent down for enough time for you to build your winning condition.
    • If you used Buried Alive + Dark Ritual + Reanimate you can use Reanimate to bring Sheoldred, Whispering One to the battlefield first and then use its first ability to bring the other 2 creatures on the next 2 turns while its second ability buys you the time to do so.
  • Terastodon to use its ability to remove up to three target noncreature permanents that can be used to stall your opponent by removing is lands or any problematic enchantments or artifacts on the battlefield.
    • Terastodon ability work the same way as cast 3xBeast Within, the only difference is that your are not able to target creatures with it.
  • Urabrask the Hidden for its ability to support my creatures by giving them haste to accelerate how fast they can used and make my opponents creatures come into the battlefield tapped delaying they use for a turn.
  • Vampire Hexmage to use its ability of remove all the counters from Dark Depths to summon Marit Lage or kill opposing Planeswalkers.
  • Visara the Dreadful for its ability to kill a creature simply by it.
    • This ability is even more helpful on the combo Sheoldred, Whispering One + Visara the Dreadful that as the potential to kill one of your opponent's creature every turn turning the battlefield ambient very hostile for them.
    • This ability to kill a creature every turn can also be used as fuel to Tragic Slip second ability for even greater creature annihilation.
  • Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger for its ability to double the amount of mana my lands can produce as well as delaying by one turn the step of any land my opponent uses to produce mana.

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Removed Cards:

Animate Dead / Blade of the Bloodchief / Crypt Ghast / Damia, Sage of Stone / Damnation / Demonic Tutor / Dread Return / Exhume / Go for the Throat / Griselbrand / Guul Draz Vampire / Hero's Downfall / Hidden Horror / Kalastria Highborn / Maralen of the Mornsong / Mirri the Cursed / Nirkana Revenant / Phyrexian Obliterator / Putrid Imp / Sangromancer / Tectonic Edge / Temporal Extortion / Vampiric Tutor / Wasteland

This is all the cards that were on the deck at some point but were removed. They may be included again if needed.

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Deck main Weaknesses:

1. Cards that can counter your spells at anny time by a low mana price.
   • Ex: Force of Will / Mental Misstep / Dispel / Envelop / Flusterstorm / Spell Pierce.
2. Cards that can stop you from search cards in your Library.
   • Ex: Stranglehold / Mindlock Orb / Leonin Arbiter.
3. Cards that can stop you from place cards in your graveyard.
   • Ex: Leyline of the Void / Samurai of the Pale Curtain / Rest in Peace / Wheel of Sun and Moon.
4. Cards that can exile some / all cards from your graveyard.
   • Ex: Cremate / Surgical Extraction / Extirpate / Infinite Obliteration / Faerie Macabre / Tormod's Crypt / Relic of Progenitus / Rest in Peace / Angel of Finality.
5. Cards that can stop you from cast cards from your Graveyard.
   • Ex: Grafdigger's Cage / Containment Priest.
6. Cards that can Exile your main creatures at anny time by a low mana price.
   • Ex: Path to Exile / Swords to Plowshares.
7. Cards that force you return your main creatures to your hand.
   • Ex: Vapor Snag / Silent Departure / Unsummon / Erratic Portal / Void Snare / Karakas.
8. Cards that can stop your creatures from attack under certain conditions.
   • Ex: Ensnaring Bridge / Ghostly Prison.
9. Other black / reanimator deck that can cast the creatures in your graveyard.
   • Ex: Reanimate / Animate Dead.

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage Dark Ritual + Entomb + Unearth Dark Ritual + Entomb + Reanimate Dark Ritual + Expedition Map Bloodghast + Buried Alive + Dark Ritual Platinum Emperion + Reanimate Buried Alive + Dark Ritual + Reanimate Ivory Tower + Reliquary Tower Ivory Tower + Spellbook Sheoldred, Whispering One + Visara the Dreadful
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 2 Mythic Rares 10 - 7 Rares 7 - 6 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.41
Tokens	Elephant 3/3 G, Marit Lage
Folders	lul, My Decks, Decks, murica, Ideal, Coo stuff