I'm building a mono black Maga, Traitor to Mortals deck, with a lot of stuff like Drain Life and Soul Burn, and hard hitting creatures. However, many of the cards I'm playing have BBB+ in the cost or can only be played with black mana. So standard artifact acceleration like Sol Ring and Thran Dynamo might not cut it.
I know about Gilded Lotus, that's definitely going in the deck. Lake of the Dead seems pretty good. Aside from Dark Ritual, what other black mana producers can I use?
I love Gauntlet of Power and Extraplanar Lens in monocolored decks. There's always darksteel ingot, spectral searchlight, coalition relic, charcoal diamond, and I also like the respective medallions in mono decks (Jet medallion in this case).
Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual are really the only ones worth using. Anything that produces less than it costs is too slow. Lake of the Dead isn't terrible, it used to be great before it got errata. Stuff like Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond and Lotus Petal work too.
I'd be extremely hesitant to use 'burst' mana sources in EDH (Rituals, Lotus Petal, etc). You're almost always better off with a more permanent mana source. Magus of the Coffers + Sword of the Paruns = infinite mana, but the sword is pretty terrible otherwise. Cabal Coffers is amazing. I'd have a very hard time justifying Chrome Mox or Mox Diamond.
In some mono-B decks I even run Paradise Plume (with Chainer for instance).
I'm not sure I'd run Lake of the Dead. Anytime you sac a land, that's half of your cost to recur your general... But I haven't played the card so I'll let someone else more knowledgable weigh in.
I know about Gilded Lotus, that's definitely going in the deck. Lake of the Dead seems pretty good. Aside from Dark Ritual, what other black mana producers can I use?
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In some mono-B decks I even run Paradise Plume (with Chainer for instance).
I'm not sure I'd run Lake of the Dead. Anytime you sac a land, that's half of your cost to recur your general... But I haven't played the card so I'll let someone else more knowledgable weigh in.
Oh yeah, Doubling Cube and Gaunlet of Power are worth a look too.
Subterranean Hangar builds up mana over time for a lethal Maga or huge Consume Spirit.
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