MTG Salvation

Xiahou Dun, stax, following the French banlist. Intended for semi-competitive 1v1 and multiplayer. Please wait while I update the decklist



Ignore the ps and ms, they are personal notes (p for cards that are proxies that I own in other decks, m for cards that are missing or I must buy).

Wincons:
1) Find and play Contamination, win the game.
2) Stax it up with Smokestack/Braids/Reassembling Skeleton/Bloodghast/Bitterblossom
3) Cabal Coffers + Deserted Temple + Rings or other things that give lots of mana (Caged Sun, Gauntlet, Nirkana) + Exsanguinate or Death Cloud or Maga or Nirkana.

Your goal: don't let the other player have a board presence or answers in hand. Use discard to get rid of counterspells. Use recursion to get around them. Lock the board down with Stax or contamination and other spells.

This deck is slightly different than one I used to play on cockatrice (that one followed the multiplayer banlist - it misses necropotence, vamp tutor, mind twist, sol ring, crucible + stripmine, fetches). It will probably take some time to tune. I'm concerned that the mana curve is too high for 1v1 play - I'm hoping that stax and contamination will allow it to delay to the point that it becomes unstoppable. It may turn out that I have to lower the mana curve and make it more aggressive.

Suggestions? Also, I'd like to play some folks on cockatrice if possible! Hit me up.

Bitterblossom is banned in the most recent 1v1 ban list update.. Also, your curve is definitely too high.

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Bitterblossom is banned in the most recent 1v1 ban list update.. Also, your curve is definitely too high.

Seriously? They really want to screw black over... yet Jace the Mind Sculptor will never get banned?...

I can't find the french ban list update anywhere - not on the website in the link in the rules of this forum.

French BL can be found here. Also, your mana curve should stop at around 4 in order to compete with the other top decks in the meta.

So the French banlist bans:

5 black cards
1 Green Card
1 White Card
3 Blue Cards

What is this horribly biased anti-black bs? I think it's time we make an American banlist where we actually have some input.

Black has had some of the most horrendously broken cards ever printed, so it's far from surprising.

Also, keep in mind Imperial Seal and Vampiric Tutor are the same card, so it's more like 4 black cards on the ban list. Necropotence is beyond busted, an early Mind Twist is unbeatable, and Bitterblossom was warping the line of play for a lot of black decks.

This deck looks more like a multplayer deck than a 1v1 deck. Take a look at the competitive deck compendium for ideas. They have older X D deck that looks more suitable for dueling. Stuff like thoughtsieze and cheap instant speed removal are mandatory. Otherwise you'll just get mopped up by any decent 1v1 competitive list.

But if you're going for multiplayer it looks pretty good.

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This deck looks more like a multplayer deck than a 1v1 deck. Take a look at the competitive deck compendium for ideas. They have older X D deck that looks more suitable for dueling. Stuff like thoughtsieze and cheap instant speed removal are mandatory. Otherwise you'll just get mopped up by any decent 1v1 competitive list.

But if you're going for multiplayer it looks pretty good.

Yeah, I'm building this from my multiplayer list for the deck. I do want to gradually tune it towards single player, but I still want some multiplayer capability (I'm working on building Edric as well purely for 1v1). Any other recs for 1v1 playable discard, tutors, removal, etc, in monoblack?

Also, if anybody would be willing to play some 1v1 edh on cockatrice, I'd be glad to play!

you know i have a very nice X-D multiplayer list that you can look at. if you want just pm me.