Throwing Shade | A Shade Tribal Deck

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

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Artifact (25)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Forebear's Blade
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Skull of Ramos
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Strata Scythe
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dauthi Embrace
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Shade's Form
• 1x Underworld Connections

Creature (19)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Ripper
• 1x Darkling Stalker
• 1x Deepwood Legate
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Dread Shade
• 1x Drifting Shade
• 1x Dungeon Shade
• 1x Evernight Shade
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Nantuko Shade
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Undercity Shade
• 1x Whispering Shade

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Nightmare Unmaking
• 1x Razaketh's Rite

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Commander (1)

Instant (7)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Defile
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Heartless Act
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Land (37)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 31x Swamp

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"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60."

-Jack Nicholson

Neat Sunglasses Bro!

Welcome one and all to another weird tribal deck! This time I'm looking at Shades, which outpace fire-breathing effects like no other, Shivan Dragon eat your heart out (I'm joking I love you)! What's the goal of our deck? To produce insane amounts of mana and make our shades hard or impossible to block. Turns out swinging for 28 in one turn is a power move. Who knew?

I Gotta Wear Them 'Cause My Future's Too Bright

I have a thing for weird tribes that are unrecognized. While many people think it's a problem (you can only play against a trilobite tribal deck so many times without losing your mind) I seriously enjoy the constructive building and work it takes to make a deck like this. Over the past few months, I've been tinkering and improving the overall feel and effectiveness of the deck and I think I've reached a point where I'm very happy with how it turned out. It cranks out consistent wins with startling efficiency for such an underrepresented tribe. Needless to say, I'm always Throwing Shade.

This is Elton John's Favorite Deck

It goes without saying that shades aren't the best. I mean, they're incredibly fragile. Imagine playing Dungeon Shade on turn 4 with no untapped mana. You just payed four mana for a 1/1 flier with no upside on that turn. In commander, that's probably one of the worst moves you can pull. However, that's not how you play this deck. As far as I can tell, there are two ways to play this deck: freaky fast kill 'em all DEATH DEATH DEATH and set up for a good turn and kill everyone over time or in one calculated swing. Of course there is possibly a third option which we'll talk about later.

I Wear Sunglasses When It's Dark

Alright, let's address the elephant in the room: why the hell is K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth the commander of this innocent little deck? Well...originally I ran Ihsan's Shade as the commander when I made the deck in May, and he was fine, the deck usually didn't win until turn 25 or something and it almost never won in our more competitive games. The, K'rikk, Son of Yawgmoth reared his head and it was love at first sight, I literally couldn't stop him from making out with my deck (if we're being honest, it was really gross). So yeah, they're inseparable because he is amazing. I have lost an incredibly small number of games with him in the command zone and he speeds up the deck 15-20 turns. Did you know he facilitates a turn 2 kill? Yeah, he's kind of insane. Not to mention he gets huge and has lifelink. Trust me, K'rrik damage stacks up quick, especially when you buff him with Shade's Form or any of our equipment. Case in point, the deck is better because it is truly playable (much like my specter deck) without being that classic: "Mono-Black is so toxic and broken."

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #24 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	Mono Black, Decks that arnt mine but i want to buiuld, Tribal/theme, Decks to Play, Alex's Paper Decks, edh decks i wanna use