Fleshbag Marauder is good to help make your opponent sac a creature and sac itself as it comes into play.

Also I don't know if you are willing to tamper with Eldrazi in this deck but Ulamog's Crusher , Pawn of Ulamog , and Hand of Emrakul . Adding Eldrazi spawn will also help you sacrifice your own creatures while triggering Blood Artist 's ability. It would also technically stay mono-black since these creatures are colorless :) just a suggestion though, I think this deck is great either way

Yeah I looked into Eldrazi, but they're too expensive to play (I may as well use Griselbrand , as for Pawn of Ulamog , well he was in the deck while I was running Grave Pact , but I was always annoyed that the token spawn was only when something of mine died :/

In regards to Fleshbag Marauder , I like him, but prefer Gatekeeper of Malakir as my 3 drop sacrifice creature (for those odd moments when I need to keep the creature I brought into play). If i upped the number of Reassembling Skeleton s to 4, then I think the Fleshbag would be a better option.

Thanks for the feedback. Good to know someone was willing to type out their thoughts :)

I might take out Reassembling Skeleton for Vault Skirge , just because I'm not sure that Reassembling Skeleton fits well here and Vault Skirge is a pretty nice first turn play. If you ever go back to Grave Pact , Viscera Seer is where it's at. I run a Junk deck where a turn three Grave Pact turns into a board wipe, after which I use Immortal Servitude to bring my stuff back...Viscera Seer goes really well with Grave Pact .

I see what you're saying but Fleshbag Marauder triggers Blood Artist twice upon entry and will trigger more times with more opponents.

Reassembling Skeleton is in there so I can return a creature after a board wipe (if I've used a Mutilate ), or my opponent has done something similar. Once you equip him with Lashwrithe he's nothing to sniff at :)

Damnation > Mutilate

Surgical Extraction /Extirpate > Beckon Apparition

203995014 Damnation can't kill indestructible creatures (Boros Charm is popular right now), where as Mutilate can... also Damnation is blooming expensive to get hold of.

Surgical Extraction /Extirpate > Beckon Apparition , true they're better and I do actually own some of them. I just liked the 1/1 body that came out of Beckon.

What do you do against creature control decks with no creatures

switch decks :P

Nobody in my group plays them... but the for the sake of sorting it out... well I'll mess with the sideboard at some point.

I really like this deck and the cards you are using. And I think that Gravepact definitely deserves a spot on the mainboard. Your mana curve is really messed up though, pretty much reversed from the way it should look, and that can really slow you down. I would love to see how this deck would play if you were able to improve that.

Hey PriestessKikyo1, thanks for the feedback. Could you explain what you mean by the manacurve being messed up? Remember that the deck is themed to use the sacrifice mechanic and I'm limited in what I can put into the deck. It flows fairly well from 1 to 4 mana costed things.

Gravepact did enjoy a bit of time in the deck, but at 4 mana it came out too slowly, and my opponents didn't have much left to to remove once it it hit the table (mainly due to all the removal the deck packs anyway).

I guessed maybe 'messed up' wasn't quite the right word. But it does peak at 4, meaning that without some ramp like Crypt Ghast , Cabal Coffers , Dark Ritual etc., that it could be quite a bit slower than most decks which tend to peak between 1-3. It's too bad that Gravepact costs 4 mana. I knew when I mentioned it that your 4 spot was already pushed to the max. It just seems so perfect! Hate it when that happens. :P

PriestessKikyo1, i see what you're saying, but there's no decent ramp in Modern for mono-black decks (Crypt Ghast costs 4 to begin with... so not really much help). I did think about using Solemn Simulacrum , but same problem being that he's 4 to play.

It does lack any way of using excess mana once I've hit 4, and only Lashwrithe scales up with every swamp in play. I keep toying with the idea of a few X spells in the deck, or some bigger things that I might play e.g. Sheoldred, Whispering One , Liliana of the Dark Realms , or something like Profane Command .

Up voted. I have a similiar deck with the same concept. Sheoldred, Whispering One - Black - Sacrifice

Hey APPLE01DOJ, thanks for the upvote (I've reciprocated the upvote), and yes your deck is pretty similar :)

I do like the idea of using Skirsdag High Priest in the deck, but he's pretty useless until I've got 2 other creatures into play (most of the time the early birds die to removal).

Well with Typhoid Rats people are hesitant to attack so it allows you to gain a board presence. While removal does take out the rats easily, Swarmyard brings them back. It also works with Mortician Beetle I've found that having a lot of 1 drops makes your deck grow faster, especially if you can protect those 1 drops early on and utilize them later. Ala Skirsdag High Priest

Maybe Damnation instead Mutilate ? I always tough it's strictly better but I may be wrong...

VRonin, Damnation has a few down sides, namely it's , but also it can't kill indestructible creatures, or prevent undying/persist creatures from returning.

It's an incredible card, but with my budget I'm sticking with Mutilate :)

VRonin, Damnation has a few down sides, namely it's expensive, but also it can't kill indestructible creatures, or prevent undying/persist creatures from returning.

It's an incredible card, but with my budget I'm sticking with Mutilate :)