The Purest Black Deck I Could Make

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

rangab7

Creature (30)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bloodflow Connoisseur
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Warren Soultrader
• 1x Weaponcraft Enthusiast
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Back for Seconds
• 1x Bankrupt in Blood
• 1x Coiling Rebirth
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Minions' Murmurs
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Persist
• 1x Soul Exchange
• 1x Syphon Flesh
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Writ of Return

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Crowded Crypt
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Waste Not

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Body Count
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Grim Return
• 1x Lethal Scheme
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Tragic Slip

Land (36)

• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 34x Swamp

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Black is the color about ambition and success at all costs.

This is my take on mono black.

Rankle is just a cool card. He is a counterweight that enables aristocrats, reanimator, and all around good damage. Get him out and play use his abilities to what matters most at the moment. Remove everything, don't force discard(it feels bad for an already removal heavy deck). Sacrifice tokens and go wide or drain with Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

The deck wins through incremental value. It's a bit harder to play than some of my other decks. General gist of the deck is do what's best at the moment. Assume the Markov assumption, what matters is what's going on now. Sacrfice everything and bring it back when you can. Victory at all costs

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Harpy 1/1 B, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Serf 0/1 B, Servo 1/1 C, Snake 1/1 B, Thrull 1/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed