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Commander / EDH* Casual Combo Goodstuff Mono-Black

Snickles@EDH_only

Creature (39)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bane of the Living
• 1x Blacklance Paragon
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Epochrasite
• 1x Eternal Taskmaster
• 1x Filth
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Nullpriest of Oblivion
• 1x Oathsworn Vampire
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Orzhov Enforcer
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stronghold Overseer
• 1x Thallid Soothsayer
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Will-o'-the-Wisp
• 1x Witch of the Moors
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Artifact (11)

• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Reito Lantern
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Spawning Pit
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Opal Palace
• 30x Swamp
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Commander (1)

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Hecatomb
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Sorcery (3)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith

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Creature (27)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dread
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Graveblade Marauder
• 1x Hunted Horror
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Kuon, Ogre Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Necroplasm
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Silent Assassin
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Soot Imp
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Artifact (4)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Predator, Flagship
• 1x Ring of Xathrid

Land (1)

• 1x Field of Ruin

Instant (1)

• 1x Silence the Believers

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Attrition

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My current mono black deck, erebos.

Why Erebos?

I picked Erebos for a couple of reasons:

• He's cheap: No seriously, 4 mana for a 5/7 with no drawbacks? Done. A commander that comes out early and sits back as an amazing blocker. (too much white anti-attack spells in my local meta to make swinging worth it)

• Hard to Remove: Indistructable is par for the course for commander anti-removal, along with hexproof. But you know what can trump that? Not being a creature. In multiple instances, I have sac'ed down out of devotion range to keep mass exile / bounce effects from hitting this guy.

• All the cards: seriously, getting Greed as a passive from you commander? Worth it, especially coupled with the life drain this deck runs.

• Opponent's can't gain life. I'm going to repeat this, because this is huge. Opponent's can't gain life. I've seen too many decks running the storm lazer as a win con, as well as token decks that survive from Soul Warden effects. this shuts them down hard, and can be recast.

Hidden Gems

Pontiff of Blight is downright scary. With 7 butt, this guy is tough to remove without direct kill spells, and as a black creature the options there are severly limited. Giving everything extort, though? That is rediculous. That eldrazi spawn token? It extorts. The dead Reassembling Skeleton? It reanimates iteslf just to extort. The pontiff itself? It extorts. Cast 1 spell, drain 3+ life from each opponent, spend it to draw more cards.

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, AKA; the emblem that nobody really cares enough about to stop. life drain a bit, then pop the out Vampiric Rites big brother.

Reito Lantern is a suprisingly versitile card. while more unwieldy than its predicessor, it has the option of tucking opponent's cards to prevent their recursion (and not having to worry about graveyard order).

Stronghold Overseer is completely unblockable by any other creature. it is the only creature in magic with both shadow and flying, but that's not why it's in the deck. overseer turns a massive dump of black mana (which, to be fair, is somthing that black makes really well ), and turns it into a black fog.

Puppeteer Clique with a sac outlet can pull out additional blockers, remove creatures from reanimation targets, trigger both ETB and death triggers, and is an all round powerhouse that gets sadly overlooked in most black decks.

Combos and Removal

Grave Pact has been a favorite of mine since I saw it printed in stronghold. Every time that it rotated back in standard and I was playing, it was my deck. The ability to turn a "downside" or inadvertant price into an offensive removal tool was the equivilant to weaponizing poop after a fiber binge. the only reason I'm not running the legged variant here is that 7 mana is a bit much for a combo piece.

Hecatomb is a wierd card. While it is worded similar to "sac as an additional cost", it is actually a seperate clause. The downside is that because of this, a careful opponent can remove enough creatures to force you to sacrifice it right off the bat. Then again, sacing 4 creatures to turn all my swamps into Prodigal Sorcerer without squishy bodies is worth it.

While Sac effects are best directed at opponents who go tall (i.e., small amounts of big creatures), opponents who go wide (large amounts of small creatures) get to deal with -X/-X effects. As an added bonus, both of these options get around hexproof, protection, and indistructable, the most previalant forms of anti-removal for EDH.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, City's Blessing, Demon 5/5 B, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Snake 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 WB
Folders	Existing Decks