Preamble
Two of my favorite cards have always been Hypnotic Specter and Nightmare. Shades fit in to the swamps matter theme, so this deck has a shade sub-theme. This deck isn't overly competitive, but it is a lot of fun if you can get the game to go long and you don't have to deal with any enchantments. I avoid most tutors because I think it takes away from the randomness that EDH promotes. I've kept one as I think Beseech the Queen is pretty fair and I think one is fair.
Play Primer
The deck really plays lots of removal and hopes to stick a shade or swamp monster to make big swings as you start to accumulate swamps. A Nightmare Lash or a Lashwraithe on a swamp monster or a shade is normally game over if its not dealt with. Drains can finish off low life opponents or keep your health up early game. I waffle a lot of keeping Exsanguinate in because its borderline un-fun, but right now its in. Like all mono-black, it get ravaged by enchantments and artifacts.
Two of my favorite cards have always been Hypnotic Specter and Nightmare. Shades fit in to the swamps matter theme, so this deck has a shade sub-theme. This deck isn't overly competitive, but it is a lot of fun if you can get the game to go long and you don't have to deal with any enchantments. I avoid most tutors because I think it takes away from the randomness that EDH promotes. I've kept one as I think Beseech the Queen is pretty fair and I think one is fair.
Play Primer
The deck really plays lots of removal and hopes to stick a shade or swamp monster to make big swings as you start to accumulate swamps. A Nightmare Lash or a Lashwraithe on a swamp monster or a shade is normally game over if its not dealt with. Drains can finish off low life opponents or keep your health up early game. I waffle a lot of keeping Exsanguinate in because its borderline un-fun, but right now its in. Like all mono-black, it get ravaged by enchantments and artifacts.
1 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
Creatures (15)
Shades
1 Frozen Shade
1 Liliana's Shade
1 Darkling Stalker
1 Whispering Shade
1 Evernight Shade
1 Nirkana Revenant
Others
1 Gatekeeper of Malakir
1 Hypnotic Specter
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Filth
1 Sangromancer
1 Bane of the Living
1 Magus of the Coffers
1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
1 Nightmare
Planeswalkers(1)
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
Enchantments (8)
1 Animate Dead
1 Dance of the Dead
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Pestilence
1 Grave Pact
1 No Mercy
1 Homicidal Seclusion
1 Bubbling Muck
1 Innocent Blood
1 Killing Wave
1 Drain Life
1 Consume Spirit
1 Grim Discovery
1 Sign in Blood
1 Profane Command
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Exsanguinate
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Consuming Vapors
1 Sever the Bloodline
1 Syphon Mind
1 Barter in Blood
1 Mutilate
1 Massacre
1 Damnation
1 Promise of Power
1 Dregs of Sorrow
1 Corrupt
1 Decree of Pain
1 Death Wind
1 Murder
1 Tendrils of Corruption
Artifacts (5)
1 Sol Ring
1 Expedition Map
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Caged Sun
1 Oblivion Stone
Equipment (4)
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Nightmare Lash
1 Lashwrithe
Land (41)
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Lake of the Dead
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
34 Swamp
Cards I'm looking at:
1 Contagion Engine
1 Aether Snap
1 Life's Finale
1 Contamination
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Deserted Temple
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Volrath's Stronghold
EDH
WWUBruna, Light of AlabasterWWU
:symub::symub: Sygg, River Cutthroat:symub::symub:
BBKorlash, Hier to BlackbladeBB
BBRRRakdos, Lord of RiotsBBRR