The Black Leech

Modern* Casual Enchantment Mono-Black

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Creature (16)

• 4x Child of Night
• 4x Corpse Hauler
• 2x Gnawing Zombie
• 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 2x Sengir Vampire

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (24)

• 24x Swamp

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Mark of the Vampire
• 4x Stab Wound

Instant (8)

• 4x Devour Flesh
• 4x Doom Blade

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Diabolic Tutor

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 2x Pharika's Cure

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Nightmare

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Sinister Possession

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The deck is built around a life-loss/life-gaining concept.

Ideas:

• The main strategy is to use Stab Wound on one of your opponent's creatures and let that drain his life each turn.

• Using low costing creatures to block any attack and gain life at the same time with lifelink ( Child of Night , Mark of the Vampire )

• Using Gray Merchant of Asphodel with enough devotion to create big life swings.

• Sengir Vampire , if I need some heavy hitters.

• Liliana of the Dark Realms, maybe for mana-ramping and if you had a bad shuffle her +1 ability keeps your deck in constant flux, and to deliver a killing blow or remove defenses with her -3 ability.

• A couple of Diabolic Tutor for searching the cards I need.

• If the opponent starts getting some creatures out, use Doom Blade for removal.

• Using a Corpse Hauler + Gray Merchant of Asphodel Combo, with Gray Merchant on the graveyard.

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I don't have a huge card collection, so that's the reason for incomplete sets(x3), Sinister Possession, and the maybeboard.

I'm looking for ways to improve this deck, the deck's weaknesses, strengths, unexpected combos/ideas. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms