Mono Black Control - 2022

Pauper Control Devotion Midrange Mono-Black

MrMortifex145

Creature (22)

• 2x Bone Picker
• 4x Chittering Rats
• 2x Crypt Rats
• 2x Cuombajj Witches
• 4x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 2x Gurmag Angler
• 2x Thorn of the Black Rose

Land (22)

• 2x Barren Moor
• 18x Swamp
• 2x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Chainer's Edict
• 4x Sign in Blood

Instant (8)

• 2x Cast Down
• 4x Defile
• 2x Snuff Out

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Sideboard

Sorcery (11)

• 3x Choking Sands
• 4x Duress
• 4x Wrench Mind

Artifact (2)

• 2x Nihil Spellbomb

Instant (2)

• 2x Unexpected Fangs

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Diabolic Edict
• 1x Echoing Decay
• 2x Suffocating Fumes

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Choking Sands

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The MBC list I use now, this deck is pretty fine-tuned with the optimal number of cards to be able to deal with most situations. A little nonbo with Cuombajj Witches and Crypt Rats, but the best pinger and best sweeper is a must in the current meta. Crypt Rats enables a fresh battlefield in the mid-late game. Against affinity being faster is the only way to survive, for this Bone Picker is fundamental as it enables a level of agression not typical for MBC, and Oubliette enables to stack devotion so Gray Merchant of Asphodel can hit for a lot since X/2 creatures don't survive for long. This deck's sideboard is tuned for meta Gurmag Angler+Unexpected Fangs to get way ahead in life total and block Myr Enforcer. Snuff Out two copies to keep up with the Tolarian Terror meta, not four because in this deck the life cost can be a lot and we can spend mana on removal. In the Izzet matchup try to play around Lightning Bolt, while being hand distruptive with the Duress+Wrench Mind package. With the rest of the matchups the deck is pretty much well placed if you draw the right sideboard tech (especially against Burn) and you just curve out and keep attacking, sometimes it is worth to attempt greedy combat to push that extra point of damage if you can then resolve a Gray Merchant of Asphodel for a lot.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Pauper Control 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	The Monarch
Folders	Pauper, jeremy, Pauper Control Ideas, Reference Decks, decks