So I have been playing "Locally" for a few months now. What i mean by that is, I have been playing for quite some years but until my roommate was like "Hey lets go play at this card shop not too far away" ive never really played at a tournament, just with a few friends and now I love it. More people, different decks. I love Aggro decks, specially Mono-Black Aggro. This is what I have:
Any Critism is wanted please, as long as its constructive.
Edit: My only "Budget" is no $25+ Cards. You can suggest them but no mutavaults. I can trade alot of cards for cards at the local cardshop but no one has extra mutavaults and the shop itself isn't buying cards. I do not have a limit on the deck itself and welcome all suggestions.
The Main "Meta" Around my area is this:
High: U/W, Esper
Medium: G/R, BuG, Naya Monsters
Light: Mono-Red Sleigh, Some form of W Aggro Heroic,
I am playing black aggro myself and I would suggest ditching those temples. The scry is nice but if you are in a control heavy meta, you don't need anything that slows you down. You need pressure before they can stabilize. Get to the full 12 of the 2/1 1 drops and add two more Thoughtseize. From turn one, beat them down with a ton of guys to minimize the impact of early spot removal and then take their sweeper from their hand. The card is expensive, but it really works. Also, go up to 4 Duress in the board. Against control, it is amazing. Those 20 cards will do great work in a meta which has control decks as the most popular.
I really like your list. General opinion is mixed, but I like Pain Seer. It tends to have a huge target on its back, but one trigger and it is worth it. I suggest giving it a try. Also, Thrill-Kill Assassin is gets the most love at two of any card.
There are a few active Mono-Black Aggro threads here; read them all. Even the top level competitive ones are relatively budget save for the Mutavaults. I like to run Bile Blight main so the double black makes anything other than a swamp less than ideal, so even without much consideration for budget, Mutavault is not an automatic four of.
I am not an expert, but have a fair amount of seat time with this deck. IMO, given your deck and meta even if you did nothing other than go to straight swamps, you will do just fine.
I mean, I do okay. I usually go 2-2 each Local Tournament. I would go Pain Seer if I was running straight 1-2 costs. Im just really edgy about it because alot of games that I have won, I have won on the skin of my teeth. One of the guys at the card shop was running, B/W Midrange and he talks about Mind Rot being really good against the Control meta that our shop seems to run. So I was thinking about those as well. I already am thinking of removing the Shred-Freaks for Assassins that seems to be the thing most of the top level B aggro decks have.
Another question I had was. Against Control, Should I remove Master of Feast? I was playing a U/W Control before the tournament and he was laughing that I was using Master of Feast against his deck. Then I have read where some people side deck it against control as giving them cards is really bad, which is understandable.
Last thing is, Im thinking of removing my doom blades for Ultimate Price, and just keeping a few in the sideboard for those B/X Decks.
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14x Swamp
3x Temple of Malice
3x Temple of Deceit
1x Temple of Malady
1x Temple of Silence
Spells
2x Halls of Triumph
2x Hero's Downfall
2x Thoughtseize
2x Doom blade
1x Whip of Erebos
4x Rakdos Shred-Freak
3x Master of Feast
4x Mogis's Marauder
2x Herald of Torment
4x Gnarled Scarhide
4x Spiteful Returned
1x Tormented Hero
1x Desecration Demon
1x Thrill-Kill Assassin
1x Xathrid Necromancer
4x Rakdos Cackler
1x Nighthowler
1x Erebos, God of the Dead
1x Lifebane Zombie
3x Duress
2x Doom blade
2x Dark BEtrayal
3x Bile Blight
2x Devour Flesh
Any Critism is wanted please, as long as its constructive.
Edit: My only "Budget" is no $25+ Cards. You can suggest them but no mutavaults. I can trade alot of cards for cards at the local cardshop but no one has extra mutavaults and the shop itself isn't buying cards. I do not have a limit on the deck itself and welcome all suggestions.
The Main "Meta" Around my area is this:
High: U/W, Esper
Medium: G/R, BuG, Naya Monsters
Light: Mono-Red Sleigh, Some form of W Aggro Heroic,
I really like your list. General opinion is mixed, but I like Pain Seer. It tends to have a huge target on its back, but one trigger and it is worth it. I suggest giving it a try. Also, Thrill-Kill Assassin is gets the most love at two of any card.
There are a few active Mono-Black Aggro threads here; read them all. Even the top level competitive ones are relatively budget save for the Mutavaults. I like to run Bile Blight main so the double black makes anything other than a swamp less than ideal, so even without much consideration for budget, Mutavault is not an automatic four of.
I am not an expert, but have a fair amount of seat time with this deck. IMO, given your deck and meta even if you did nothing other than go to straight swamps, you will do just fine.
Another question I had was. Against Control, Should I remove Master of Feast? I was playing a U/W Control before the tournament and he was laughing that I was using Master of Feast against his deck. Then I have read where some people side deck it against control as giving them cards is really bad, which is understandable.
Last thing is, Im thinking of removing my doom blades for Ultimate Price, and just keeping a few in the sideboard for those B/X Decks.