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Mono-Black midrange

Modern Midrange Mono-Black

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Instant (8)

Land (23)

Enchantment (2)

Sorcery (10)

Planeswalker (1)

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Artifact (7)

Enchantment (2)

Instant (3)

Sorcery (1)

Land (2)

Straightforward black deck. Idea is playing the spot removal and discard packages to stop your opponent then beat your opponent down with sheer value creatures in Gifted Aetherborn, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Gatekeeper of Malakir and power from Phyrexian Obliterator and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

Dark Confidant, Phyrexian Arena, and Sign in Blood allows massive card advantage to spew out cards.

Fatal Push, Dismember, Murderous Cut, and Gatekeeper of Malakir are removal to get your attackers through.

Inquisition of Kozilek and Thoughtseize are hand destruction to get rid of potential problematic threats.

Liliana of the Dark Realms to allow even more mana flooding with her plus (working great with Cabal Stronghold) and make everything a finisher with her middle ability (great with Gifted Aetherborn giving back a ton of health).

And Damnation as a last resort, emergency button. You have a good amount of card draw so you can bounce back pretty quickly.

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Split — Sept. 3, 2018
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I’m gonna be honest, I’m not much of a fan of this deck anymore. It just feels too run of the mill and net deck-y (is that even a term?) while trying not to be. I built it with a cheap tempo, midrange deck using Confidant “Bob” as advantage and beating down with the vampire synergies that allowed even more advantage plus life juggling.

This just feels like a weak devotion you can find everywhere. I’m thinking of taking this deck down then splitting it into two separate decks: that midrange, tempo deck I slowly been diverting from and a devotion, “play the best black cards” deck with my own flair on it. I’ll leave this up for a while until I figure out the skeleton’s (pun... skeletons are in black and these are both Mono blacks? Laugh peasants!!! Lol) to these two decks. Thank you so much retropman and YamshiTheWickedOne for all the help. I just recently got back into Magic after a few year break and it’s my first time getting into semi-competitive deck building. I have a ton of ideas for decks and everyone gets a few bad ones now and again, hell when GoR comes out I might make a deck for all the guilds using only cards from Ravnica blocks and Core Sets...

v2 — Aug. 23, 2018
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