The Hollow Men (Modern MTG Deck)

The Hollow Men

Modern Control Mono-Black

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Instant (12)

Sorcery (4)

4x Consuming Vapors

Artifact (4)

4x Lashwrithe

Creature (17)

Land (23)

Sideboard

Sorcery (6)

Artifact (4)

Creature (5)

Maybeboard

Creature (2)

"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"
- From T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Hollow Men'

Another monocolored, very budget-friendly deck. Has excellent and flexible removal capacity and doesn't run out of fuel easily. It has solution to pretty much every conceivable creature problem: Sweep hordes of small creatures or tokens with Necroplasm, use conventional spot removal (Doom Blade and Go for the Throat) for those particularly nasty critters, kill indestructible creatures with Grasp of Darkness and Dismember and deal with hexproof or color protection with Geth's Verdict and Consuming Vapors.

You can spam these with reckless abandon since Disciple of Bolas refuels your hand and Toshiro Umezawa acts as a Snapcaster Mage in steroids. All while your Phyrexian Obliterator or Dross Golem keeps giving your opponent a really hard time, equipped with a badass Lashwrithe.

About sideboard:
Canker Abomination replaces some removal cards when dealing with decks with little to no creatures, acting as a cheap 6/6 beater on turn four. Rain of Tears slows down opponent's progress and can cripple urzatron, multicolored decks or any archetype that requires specific types of land for mana production or combo purposes. Since it'll probably be used primarily against nonbasic lands, it probably gets replaced by Fulminator Mage in time. Syphon Life makes it more feasible to outlast burn decks. Nihil Spellbomb and Relic of Progenitus represent some standard-issue graveyard hate.

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Sideboard changes — March 11, 2013

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Greater Harvester, as I suspected, isn't that good. It's mana cost is highly prohibitive and makes it too slow to realistically counter burn decks. Instead, I've decided to use 4x Rain of Tears which may provide a useful solution against a multitude of deck archetypes such as urzatron. To make room for the fourth RoT, Canker Abomination gets dropped to from 4 to 3.

Additionally, I've split my graveyard hate to two separate cards by dropping 2x Nihil Spellbomb and replacing them with Relic of Progenitus to make exiling cards from graveyards more flexible.

More changes — Jan. 24, 2013

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Smoothen the Curve (kinda) — Dec. 25, 2012

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Maiden voyage + couple of deck updates — Dec. 18, 2012

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Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 2 Rares 5 - 8 Uncommons 12 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	2 - All active decks, 1 - Most successful
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