My friends and I are rookies and we play casually. We have fun, but, are pretty competitive at the same time. I'm running and 60 card mono black deck right now with tons of swamp (26), which I love. This deck has no creatures in it and features cards like, Sorin's Vengeance(foil, it looks sick), Exsanguinate,Mutilate, Corrupt, Genju of the Fens,Barter in Blood(to take advantage of the no creatures and it beats indestructible), and of course Dark Ritual. I win consistently with this deck and in our casual free for alls, they have to team up on me and sometimes that is not even enough. They say that this is a stupid deck and that it is no fun to play against.
I would like to adjust to my friends agitation and make a variant of this deck for their sake, that has creatures, but, that I can still squash my friends with. Here is my question:
Can you please recommend me some very high powered black creatures that don't cost too much money? Casting cost is of no issue though.
P.S. I am open to any other observations. Also, I am looking to buy a few Cabal Coffers. I think they would go great in this deck, what do you think?
Standard is defined as the 2 most recent blocks and the 1-2 most recent core sets. So in this case, it'd mean Return to ravnica, gatecrash, dragon's maze, M14, Theros, Born of the gods, and Journey to nyx.
I could make suggestions for you but instead I'll make a suggestion to your friends which will allow you to play your deck without them complaining. Any of these options will work just fine and they don't even all have to do it, just one or two taking any of these options (There are others but these come to mind first) and things will solve themselves.
1. Play burn or mill, a deck that doesn't really need to use the creatures much while heading for the win.
2. Play a blue inclusive tempo deck.
3. Play any blue inclusive control deck. A cheapo win con would be aetherling if they can't think of one.
4. Play a deck with a bunch of cheap creatures that have haste.
5. If they want to play standard, just cram in underworld connections, gray merchant of asphodel, and whip of erebos on top of the usual suspects and whatever.
6. A rack deck (using cards like the rack, shrieking affliction, etc in combination with hand hate).
I would like to adjust to my friends agitation and make a variant of this deck for their sake, that has creatures, but, that I can still squash my friends with. Here is my question:
Can you please recommend me some very high powered black creatures that don't cost too much money? Casting cost is of no issue though.
P.S. I am open to any other observations. Also, I am looking to buy a few Cabal Coffers. I think they would go great in this deck, what do you think?
I could make suggestions for you but instead I'll make a suggestion to your friends which will allow you to play your deck without them complaining. Any of these options will work just fine and they don't even all have to do it, just one or two taking any of these options (There are others but these come to mind first) and things will solve themselves.
1. Play burn or mill, a deck that doesn't really need to use the creatures much while heading for the win.
2. Play a blue inclusive tempo deck.
3. Play any blue inclusive control deck. A cheapo win con would be aetherling if they can't think of one.
4. Play a deck with a bunch of cheap creatures that have haste.
5. If they want to play standard, just cram in underworld connections, gray merchant of asphodel, and whip of erebos on top of the usual suspects and whatever.
6. A rack deck (using cards like the rack, shrieking affliction, etc in combination with hand hate).
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