MTG Salvation

So I am still really new to EDH and outside of my small meta. I wanted to go a different route than the creature based decks I had before. Outside of EDH I also have no mono-black decks. Just never bother to build one. Once I saw maga I knew that time had come.

I tried to take what I like out of all the other maga build's on here. I wanted light on creature but not to bare. I loaded it up with sweepers and stuck in a whole lot of support. Please let me know if I have the balance wrong or am missing some key cards. Help is always appreciated.





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I don't like lashwrithe in here. Try all is dust instead. Gives you an out against enchantments. Doubling cube isn't that great because it's costs so much before there's any net increase. Try gauntlet of power instead. Cheaper to use that a single doubling cube activation. Since you run extraplana lens you may as well run Snowcovered swamps. Where's your Vampiric tutor and damnation? Eyeblight's ending is much better than go for throat IMO.

I would take out journeyer's kite for worn Powerstone or Thran dynamo for more speed. Same goes for armillary sphere. Trade it out for Wayfarer's bauble because it great with all of your doublers. Planar portal is not needed since you're running black. Take it our for blightsteel colossus because it's very good when you're running coffers and doublers. You have a lot of drain spells. Try replacing one with Wurmcoil engine because it's basically a repeatable drain spell that doesn't comes back after board wipes and provides blockers as well. Needs moar draw. Phyrexian arena, Necropotence and Graveborn muse for starters. Also missing is discard, both targeted and group. Myojin of Night's reach and Cabal conditioning for group and mind twist, mind shatter and mind sludge for targeted. Those will help you deal with noncreature based decks such as combo or some control decks. I hope that helps.

I totally agree with lashwrite. I wasn't happy with it at the start and after sleeping on it I decided to drop it. I'll swamp it out for All is Dust.

No Vampiric Tutor and Damnation strictly due to budget.


Wouldn't Journeyer's Kite be better than colourless mana rocks as most of my burn spells require black mana only? It also increases then swamp count I have on the field for the coffers.

Wasn't sure about the portal either. I suppose I have enough tutoring.


Was thinking about Cabal Conditioning before. How about Syphon Mind as both draw and discard? If I put in a Mind Twist is three enough discard spells?


I feel like I could stand to drop a creature as well but am not sure what one.

You have 2 burn spells that require black and a couple spells that require swamps. That's maybe 5 cards in the whole deck. I think the majority of your spells would benefit from it. I personally would want the speed considering how slow maga wins can be sometimes. And you definitely need gauntlet of power to help fire out those lethal maga drains. If you're going to run only one discard spell(which I don't suggest) it must be myojin of Night's reach. If you're planning to play multiplayer the advantage of raping everybodies hands opposed to one person's hand shoul be obvious. I used to run syphon mind but it kind of sucks. It doesn't do discard well and it doesn't do draw great either. Black has much better options. I'm going to say this one last time. You need more draw. Have you played this deck much?

I have never played it actually. I want to build this deck next. That's why I'm trying to find help. I have very little EDH experience really but lots of magic experience.


Here is what I'm thinking.

-1 Lashwrithe
-1 Journeryer's Kite
-1 Planar Portal
-1 Doubling Cube
-1 Go for the Throat
-1 Beacon of Unrest
-1 Drain Life
-1 Visara the Dreadful
-1 Demonic Collusion


+1 Elfblight's Ending
+1 Gauntlet of Power
+1 Thran dynamo
+1 All is Dust
+1 Cabal Conditioning
+1 Mind Twist
+1 Myojin of Night's Reach
+1 Phyrexian arena
+1 Wurmcoil Engine

I like those changes. The deck is becoming more well rounded. Maybe consider dust bowl or tectonic edge to take out other people's strip mines or gaea's cradle type lands. Strip mines can really suck when you want to drop coffers. Just a thought. I know you're running ways to recur coffers. BTW with all the drain/life gain necropotence (aka the most busted card draw in mtg)seems like it needs a spot. It goes great with reliquary tower which you're running.