I moved for work and I've found that the atmosphere at the new LGS has some kitchen-sink type of players, perfect for Multiplayer. This made me build an Erebos EDH, so that I could shuffle the General into the deck and basically play a Casual Multiplayer deck as a Highlander. I'd like an extra few pairs of eyes to look it over and tell me some things I've missed, as this is mostly cobbled together from a variety of cards I own.
It is 100 cards because of it's virtue of switching between EDH and Casual. The numbers next to cards is their CMC, not how many copies; exception is the 34 Swamps.
Curve is too high and needs to be lowered. You don't need a million fatties when you're playing Black.
Where you play Scour from Existence I play Unstable Obelisk. It's not strictly better or anything but being a cheap ramp spell is extremely relevant in my experience. Otherwise I highly recommend All is Dust if you can afford it because it's a monoblack staple. Enchantments are extremely annoying to deal with otherwise.
Dark Ritual should be played in 100% of Black decks and Erebos is no exception. You're never going to run out of cards so anything that you can do to gain velocity is amazing.
Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead and Necromancy should be played in 100% of Black Control decks. They recur the strongest creatures played for trivial sums of mana and enable you to cast multiple spells per turn when needed. I'm also extremely fond of Reanimate for similar reasons but that one is a bit pricier. There's no compelling reason to omit these kinds of cards from your deck. They're always going to have relevant targets and at 1-3 CMC you're always going to get an insane return on your investment.
Sign in Blood and Night's Whisper should basically always be played in monoblack. They're cheap 2-for-1s that carry next-to-no opportunity cost. They help you hit your land drops, dig you into action and enable you to cast multiple spells in the midgame.
While we're on the subject of Coffers both Vesuva and Deserted Temple are great if you can afford them. Thespian's Stage is a no-brainer gives its cheap pricetag and these are stellar if you're able to foot the bill.
A draw spell that I'm extremely fond of is Necrologia. It loses some of its luster when Erebos is the man at the helm but it's still "5 mana draw 7 cards" which is fairly ridiculous.
In decks like these I'm a huge fan of Wake the Dead and Living Death. You have so many awesome ETB triggers to copy.
I'm a little surprised with your recommendation to cut mana accel, so I got rid of the Chalice and Powerstone in addition to the Hedron.
After a few games I definitely felt like I lacked Wraths, so instead of cutting the bad Wraths I added a few more. I think adding one or two more would be great before cutting the crappy stuff.
I've been playing MBC in EDH since I started in the format about 6 years ago. This is a (mostly) current list for my Drana deck. Some of it is personal preference, but I've found it to be fairly successful.
I'm a little surprised with your recommendation to cut mana accel, so I got rid of the Chalice and Powerstone in addition to the Hedron.
My bad, I guess I wasn't very clear. I LOVE the 0-2 CMC mana rocks. They're absolutely fantastic and I wouldn't dream of cutting them. My point was that Black doesn't need marginal 4+ CMC mana rocks not named Thran Dyanmo/Gilded Lotus over actual mana doublers. I didn't want you to cut any of the cheap mana rocks!
Wayfarer's Bauble is crap. I know that it fetches a Swamp which is relevant for Coffers but the card still sucks. I would never run it over Mind Stone, Thought Vessel, Hell even Fractured Powerstone. I'm not even joking about that last one, I would literally a 2 mana untapped ramper with no relevant text over it.
The Myriad Landscape suggestion from CoolLink19's list is a great one.
I've have had more success with the changes made, but I'd like to float an idea by:
I've been having trouble spending all of my mana. I was thinking of adding the 5 CMC tutor that searches for X cards when it struck me that Planar Portal] is much better. I remember those being staples in MBC around Odyssey block but I haven't seen them in use in many years. Is there a particular reason why?
Would Planar Portal be a good idea? Why or why not? After all, I'm playing Highlander/EDH, so there's tons of silver bullets I'd like to search up.
The only 2 cards in the deck that actually matter are Cabal Coffers and Necropotence. Why spend 6 mana tutoring for a single card each circuit when you're inherently drawing 5 cards with which to spend your copious amounts of mana on?
It is 100 cards because of it's virtue of switching between EDH and Casual. The numbers next to cards is their CMC, not how many copies; exception is the 34 Swamps.
2 Blood Artist
2 Nezumi Graverobber
2 Reassembling Skeleton
2 Wight of Precinct Six
2 Zulaport Cutthroat
3 Burnished Hart
3 Coffin Queen
3 Fleshbag Marauder
3 Merciless Executioner
3 Ophiomancer
3 Stinkweed Imp
3 Vampire Nighthawk
4 Crypt Ghast
4 Disciple of Bolas
4 Erebos, God of the Dead
4 Falkenrath Noble
4 Graveborn Muse
4 Phyrexian Obliterator
5 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
5 Magus of the Coffers
6 Geth, Lord of the Vault
6 Harvester of Souls
6 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
6 Reaper from the Abyss
7 Sheoldred, Whispering One
Enchantment - 10
1 Bloodchief Ascension
3 Attrition
3 Necropotence
3 Phyrexian Arena
3 Underworld Connections
4 Grave Pact
5 Black Market
5 Dictate of Erebos
5 Exquisite Blood
5 Painful Quandary
Artifact - 8
1 Expedition Map
1 Skullclamp
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
2 Charcoal Diamond
2 Jet Medallion
4 Lashwrithe
5 Gilded Lotus
7 Altar of Shadows
Planeswalker - 1
4 Liliana of the Dark Realms
2 Black Sun's Zenith
2 Exsanguinate
2 Night's Whisper
2 Sign in Blood
3 Beseech the Queen
3 Read the Bones
3 Toxic Deluge
3 Victimize
4 Diabolic Tutor
4 Mutilate
4 Syphon Mind
6 Deadly Tempest
7 Necromantic Selection
9 In Garruk's Wake
Lands - 37
0 Cabal Coffers
0 Crypt of Agadeem
0 Leechridden Swamp
0 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
0 Thespian's Stage
32 Swamp
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Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
Where you play Scour from Existence I play Unstable Obelisk. It's not strictly better or anything but being a cheap ramp spell is extremely relevant in my experience. Otherwise I highly recommend All is Dust if you can afford it because it's a monoblack staple. Enchantments are extremely annoying to deal with otherwise.
Dark Ritual should be played in 100% of Black decks and Erebos is no exception. You're never going to run out of cards so anything that you can do to gain velocity is amazing.
Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead and Necromancy should be played in 100% of Black Control decks. They recur the strongest creatures played for trivial sums of mana and enable you to cast multiple spells per turn when needed. I'm also extremely fond of Reanimate for similar reasons but that one is a bit pricier. There's no compelling reason to omit these kinds of cards from your deck. They're always going to have relevant targets and at 1-3 CMC you're always going to get an insane return on your investment.
Sign in Blood and Night's Whisper should basically always be played in monoblack. They're cheap 2-for-1s that carry next-to-no opportunity cost. They help you hit your land drops, dig you into action and enable you to cast multiple spells in the midgame.
Cabal Coffers is your actual General and you need to support it as much as you can. Expedition Map, Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Intent, Beseech the Queen, Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Rune-Scarred Demon, whatever you can afford. Tutors are likely the single best investment that you can possibly make. On that note you're going to want Thespian's Stage because it's another copy of Coffers and you'll routinely want to fetch it. This is especially true when you have a creature-based tutor such as Sidisi, Undead Vizier given that she converts all of your Animate Dead effects into Demonic Tutors.
While we're on the subject of Coffers both Vesuva and Deserted Temple are great if you can afford them. Thespian's Stage is a no-brainer gives its cheap pricetag and these are stellar if you're able to foot the bill.
Black doesn't need/want expensive + marginal ramp such as Dreamstone Hedron. It wants Gauntlet of Power, Magus of the Coffers, Nirkana Revenant, etc. that literally double its mana production. Don't bother with anything that isn't named Thran Dynamo or Gilded Lotus.
I loathe the 6-7 CMC Black Wraths and think that they're utter garbage compared to Toxic Deluge, Mutilate, Damnation, Crux of Fate, Decree of Pain and In Garruk's Wake. There's just not world where the the winning play involves jamming things like Deadly Tempest or Necromantic Selection as opposed to those.
A draw spell that I'm extremely fond of is Necrologia. It loses some of its luster when Erebos is the man at the helm but it's still "5 mana draw 7 cards" which is fairly ridiculous.
In decks like these I'm a huge fan of Wake the Dead and Living Death. You have so many awesome ETB triggers to copy.
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0 Thespian's Stage
1 Expedition Map
1 Sol Ring
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
2 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
2 Nights Whisper
2 Sign in Blood
3 Beseech the Queen
3 Toxic Deluge
5 Crux of Fate
5 Gilded Lotus
7 Sheoldred, Whispering One
9 In Garruk's Wake
0 Swamp
0 Swamp
0 Everflowing Chalice
2 Consume Spirit
3 Nighthowler
3 Worn Powerstone
4 Slum Reaper
5 Banshee of the Dread Choir
5 Beacon of Unrest
6 Dreamstone Hedron
6 Grave Titan
6 Pontiff of Blight
7 Butcher of Malakir
7 Scour from Existence
After a few games I definitely felt like I lacked Wraths, so instead of cutting the bad Wraths I added a few more. I think adding one or two more would be great before cutting the crappy stuff.
Beacon of Unrest is cut in favour of the much cheaper Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead.
I'm a little sad to get rid of Banshee of the Dread Choir, as I think Myriad is a really neat mechanic.
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
5 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Tutors (11)
1 Expedition Map (Foil)
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Demonic Tutor
3 Beseech the Queen (FTV Foil)
3 Shred Memory (CMC 2)(Foil)
3 Dimir Machinations (CMC 3) (Foil)
3 Dimir House Guard (CMC 4) (Foil)
3 Brainspoil (CMC 5)(Foil)
4 Diabolic Tutor (Foil)
5 Diabolic Revelation (Foil)
5 Dark Petition
Mana Ramp (6)
1 Sol Ring
1 Dark Ritual
1 Wayfarer's Bauble (Foil)
2 Armillary Sphere (Foil)
3 Burnished Hart (Foil)
4 Thran Dynamo
Mana Doublers (6)
3 Extraplanar Lens
4 Crypt Ghast
4 Liliana of the Dark Realms
5 Gauntlet of Power
6 Nirkana Revenant
6 Caged Sun
Card Draw (9)
2 Damnable Pact (Pre-Release Promo)
2 Sign in Blood (Full Art Promo)
2 Night's Whisper (Foil)
3 Read the Bones (Foil)
3 Necropotence (FTV Foil)
3 Phyrexian Arena (Foil)
4 Erebos, God of the Dead
5 Ob Nixilis Reignited (Pre-Release Promo)
5 Necrologia
3 Tribute to Hunger (Foil)
3 Fleshbag Marauder (Foil)
3 Merciless Executioner (Foil)
7 Karn Liberated
Mass Removal (8)
2 Black Sun's Zenith (Game Day Promo)
3 Toxic Deluge
3 Oblivion Stone
4 Mutilate
4 Perilous Vault
5 Kagemaro, First to Suffer
8 Decree of Pain (Commander's Arsenal Foil)
8 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (Ugin's Fate Promo)
Utility (12)
1 Relic of Progenitus (Foil)
1 Pithing Needle
2 Profane Command
2 Scroll Rack (Commander's Arsenal Foil)
3 Crucible of Worlds (Judge Promo)
3 Rings of Brighthearth (Kaladesh Invention)
3 Praetor's Grasp (Foil)
3 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Infernal Darkness
5 Chainer, Dementia Master
7 Sheoldred, Whispering One (Pre-Release Promo)
Life Drain (4)
2 Consume Spirit (Foil)
2 Exsanguinate
5 Gray Merchant of Asphodel (Foil)
6 Kokusho, the Evening Star
2 Mind Shatter (Foil)
5 Mind Sludge (Foil)
8 Myojin of Night's Reach
Land (37)
1 Cabal Coffers (FNM Promo)
1 Vesuva (FTV Foil)
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Marsh Flats
1 Polluted Delta
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Deserted Temple
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (FTV Foil)
1 Ancient Tomb (FTV Foil)
25 Swamp
Myojin of night's reach and infernal darkness can be unfun but are highly effective at ending games.
My bad, I guess I wasn't very clear. I LOVE the 0-2 CMC mana rocks. They're absolutely fantastic and I wouldn't dream of cutting them. My point was that Black doesn't need marginal 4+ CMC mana rocks not named Thran Dyanmo/Gilded Lotus over actual mana doublers. I didn't want you to cut any of the cheap mana rocks!
Wayfarer's Bauble is crap. I know that it fetches a Swamp which is relevant for Coffers but the card still sucks. I would never run it over Mind Stone, Thought Vessel, Hell even Fractured Powerstone. I'm not even joking about that last one, I would literally a 2 mana untapped ramper with no relevant text over it.
The Myriad Landscape suggestion from CoolLink19's list is a great one.
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I've been having trouble spending all of my mana. I was thinking of adding the 5 CMC tutor that searches for X cards when it struck me that Planar Portal] is much better. I remember those being staples in MBC around Odyssey block but I haven't seen them in use in many years. Is there a particular reason why?
Would Planar Portal be a good idea? Why or why not? After all, I'm playing Highlander/EDH, so there's tons of silver bullets I'd like to search up.
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
The only 2 cards in the deck that actually matter are Cabal Coffers and Necropotence. Why spend 6 mana tutoring for a single card each circuit when you're inherently drawing 5 cards with which to spend your copious amounts of mana on?
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