Rack Pox T1.5 '98/'99

Casual Mono-Black Pox

qwerr

Instant (16)

• 4x Demonic Consultation
• 4x Diabolic Edict
• 4x Funeral Charm
• 4x Spinning Darkness

Creature (3)

• 1x Baron Sengir
• 2x Mindless Automaton

Artifact (9)

• 1x Lodestone Bauble
• 4x The Rack
• 4x Urza's Bauble

Land (16)

• 16x Swamp

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Animate Dead

Sorcery (12)

• 4x Duress
• 4x Hymn to Tourach
• 4x Pox

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I chose Animate Dead over Necromancy or Dance of the Dead because it was less mana-intensive. Mindless Automatons were rather useful: they could dodge Swords to Plowshares and other exile-effects, could turn "situationally useless" cards into other draws or damage, and would cost the opponent a card if removed. There were really no reasons to include Baron Sengir except that it was cool to kill the opponent with the big bad guy.

The deck had to win quickly due to lack of staying power (no drawing engine, no big threats, the use of Demonic Consultation); the second best outcome was the rack soft lock, with the opponent forced to keep cards in hand to avoid being killed: the soft lock however would just bought a few turns to find a consultation or a pox or to reanimate a creature for the killing blow. I always chose to draw (at the time the first player skipped the draw step) unless against heavy control decks because in this case a second turn hymn was quite critical. Being clogged with creature removals the deck was at disadvantage against creatureless decks, especially if filled to the brim with counterspells and drawing engines. Sideboards usually included cards to handle artifacts (e.g. Powder Keg, Relic Barrier or Touchstone, Null Rod ) and a few color hosers (such as Gloom, Dystopia); sometimes it was just 4 Black Knights, 4 Hypnotic Spectres 4 Ashen Ghouls and 3 Dark Rituals

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.09