Shadowborn Assault (Standard MTG Deck)

Shadowborn Assault

Standard Demons Mono-Black WB (Orzhov)

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Creature (24)

Land (20)

20x Swamp

Instant (6)

Sorcery (10)

Sideboard

Creature (5)

Instant (6)

Sorcery (4)

4x Duress

Oriented around the mechanics of Shadowborn Apostle in order to bring out larger demons in a hybrid style of aggro and combo.

Key combo would be a Turn 6 play. Assuming 6 copies of Swamp untapped and 6 copies of Shadowborn Apostle in play, tap one and sacrifice to get a larger demon out followed by tapping the remaining five lands and playing Immortal Servitude to get all 6 copies of Shadowborn Apostle in your Graveyard back into play to rinse and repeat the next turn.

Concerns with the deck will be starting hands or draw streaks of nothing but Creature Spells. Tempted to mitigate this by adding Diabolic Tutor in order to properly search the deck.

Adding some money to the deck would allow for switching out the four copies of Duress for four copies of Thoughtseize. Also, dropping the two copies of Doom Blade for a fourth copy of Desecration Demon and Hero's Downfall might be looked at as well.

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PuG: Standard Playtest — April 18, 2014

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Tested out the deck in three-way free-for-all.

Both games, I managed to get out 6 Shadowborn Apostle (partially out of pity from other players?) and in the second game, I pulled a 6 Shadowborn Apostle to Shadowborn Demon, followed by Immortal Servitude into 6 Shadowborn Apostle for a second go around.

I was mana-starved the first game, and desperately wanted some way to scry or get some Lands in my hand. And the second game, I was Shadowborn Apostle starved instead.

20 Lands and 18 Shadowborn Apostle seems like a good split, but in order to mitigate the issues above, will be adding Diabolic Tutor to see how that plays out.

-1 Desecration Demon

-2 Eater of Hope

-4 Xathrid Necromancer

+2 Lord of the Void

+2 Diabolic Tutor

-4 Duress

+2 Immortal Servitude

+4 Thoughtseize

+2 Bile Blight

-2 Doom Blade

+1 Hero's Downfall

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Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 6 - 5 Rares 8 - 2 Uncommons 18 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
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