PDH(B) - Ihsan's Shade

Pauper EDH* Mono-Black

Alkadron

Creature (31)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Cadaverous Knight
• 1x Cemetery Gate
• 1x Craven Knight
• 1x Darkling Stalker
• 1x Disciple of Malice
• 1x Drudge Skeletons
• 1x Dungeon Shade
• 1x Fallen Askari
• 1x Fallen Cleric
• 1x Feral Shadow
• 1x Frozen Shade
• 1x Ghosts of the Damned
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Hoar Shade
• 1x Hollow Dogs
• 1x Kjeldoran Dead
• 1x Lim-Dul's High Guard
• 1x Looming Shade
• 1x Lost Soul
• 1x Order of the Ebon Hand
• 1x Restless Dead
• 1x Sengir Bats
• 1x Shadow Rider
• 1x Twisted Abomination
• 1x Unworthy Dead
• 1x Urborg Skeleton
• 1x Vampire Hounds
• 1x Walking Dead
• 1x Wall of Shadows
• 1x Whispering Shade

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Brush with Death
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Drain Life
• 1x Evincar's Justice
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Raise Dead
• 1x Sever Soul
• 1x Soul Burn
• 1x Syphon Soul
• 1x Touch of Death
• 1x Unearth

Land (40)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bog Wreckage
• 1x Desert
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 36x Swamp

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Dragon Shadow
• 1x Shade's Form
• 1x Soul Kiss
• 1x Torture
• 1x Unholy Strength

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Dark Banishing
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Headstone
• 1x Howl from Beyond
• 1x Reaping the Graves
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Spinning Darkness
• 1x Terror

Artifact (2)

• 1x Runesword
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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This deck, along with Mono-blue Hedron Crab mill, is my other worst PDH deck.

I like Ihsan's Shade, not because the card is any good, but for story and flavor reasons. I decided I wanted the deck to reflect that. So I put a couple of fun restrictions on myself for deck construction.

• First, every card needed to be related to Ihsan's Shade in some way. Since he is a fallen paladin, I focused on cards about Darkness and shadows, Fallen knights and evil clerics, and stuff like The Damned. I also added in Shades (his buddies!) and lots of skeletons (his armies!), and some other pretty horrible soul-damaging events (Sever soul, syphon soul, soul kiss, corrupt, etc.)

• Second, Every card is pre-modern, with the old-school (printed before mirrodin) border.

These restrictions limited my options pretty severely, but I'm still very pleased with the result. It's a bad deck, but it's a pretty deck and a cool deck, and that's more important to me sometimes.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.85
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Dave's Pauper EDH