Contamination of the Meta

Legacy Casual Control Cruel Control Mono-Black

Chiberia

Sorcery (12)

• 2x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 3x Drain Life
• 4x Thoughtseize
• 2x Toxic Deluge

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Bitterblossom
• 4x Contamination

Creature (14)

• 4x Dark Confidant
• 2x Desecration Demon
• 4x Ophiomancer
• 4x Phyrexian Obliterator

Instant (8)

• 4x Dark Ritual
• 4x Fatal Push

Land (18)

• 2x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 10x Swamp
• 2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4x Wasteland

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Slaughter Pact
• 4x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Leyline of the Void

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

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This is a deck I came up with a few days ago. I saw the card Contamination and thought about making a mono black Sidisi, Undead Vizier deck to make it stupidly good in, but decided that there weren't enough legacy decks using it.

Turn 1:

The best play would be a Thoughtseize to get an idea of what your opponent is going to do, however this would be if you were on the play.

Turn 2:

In the second turn you need to either play a Dark Confidant (if you don't have a bitterblossom) and if you do play a Bitterblossom. Or if you need to kill something with Fatal Push do that.

Turn 3:

This is where we need the lock to work, hopefully you have a Bitterblossom by this point so you have repeated sac fodder for Contamination, and use whatever ramp (Dark Ritual or Cabal Ritual) to play what you need to.

Turn 4: If the locks not in play find a way to play it for the love of god.

The Ideal play on turn 4 is a Phyrexian Obliterator, but an Desecration Demon would be good if you're losing. Use one of these two to start diminishing the life total of your enemy.

If they are running a very creature or Zoo based deck, you need to play a Damnation too even the playing field.

Now contamination may not seem like a lock, but most decks in legacy are 3-5 colored. This means that most of there decks would be completely useless when contamination is in play.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 15 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.33
Tokens	Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 B