Janky list with Horobi. This deck wants to generate value and ramp in the early game, uses Horobi to control the board when needed. This deck tries to win assembling Revel in Riches, generating a ton of mana with Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth combination or simply grinding the game for the win.
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Burnished Hart is a way of ramping with B color identity. This creatures can also be reanimated with various effects.
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Crypt Ghast doubles mana production with Swamps, synergizing with Urborg land.
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Demon of Dark Schemes can easily sweep opponents' small creatures and our own Eldrazi tokens, generating a lot of energy that can be used to reanimate creatures.
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Harvester of Souls draws a lot of cards with creatures dying with different effects, like Horobi triggers.
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Hex Parasite destroys any creature on the battlefield with only 2 life if Horobi is in the field.
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet is a way of generating a lot of tokens while exiling opponents' threats.
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Mikaeus, the Unhallowed can reanimate a lot of our creatures, doubling their ETB effects and increasing the resilience of our board.
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Mogis's Marauder is just a way to target a lot of creatures with an ETB effect and low mana cost.
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Murderous Rider is a way to deal with planeswalkers while also can target creatures with no life loss if Horobi is in the field.
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Nirkana Revenant to increase our mana production.
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Ogre Slumlord generate a lot of tokens that can be used for defense (having deathtouch) or sacrifice effects' costs. Ophiomancer is a card that also have this function.
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Pawn of Ulamog and Sifter of Skulls generates a lot of Eldrazi tokens that can be used for mana production or sacrifice effects' costs (and also controlling the board with Dictate of Erebos).
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Puppeteer Clique is a way of reviving creatures and combo piece.
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Sidisi, Undead Vizier triggers sacrifice effects and tutor for cards that we will be needing.
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Solemn Simulacrum for ramp and card draw in B color identity.
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Tetzimoc, Primal Death can target creatures even if it is in our hand, making it a safe way of targeting creatures on the board.
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Triskelion can target creatures with no mana cost and is an efficient combo piece in this deck.
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Tymaret, Chosen from Death is a way of dealing with graveyards and gain life.
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Yawgmoth, Thran Physician can target creatures with low costs and can draw cards easily.
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Attrition can use our small creatures as sac fodder to target (i.e. killing) opponents' nonblack creatures.
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Dictate of Erebos is a way of controlling the board without Horobi effects (in cases when we can't target a creature with hexproof or when the Horobi's cost is too high to recast it)
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Grave Betrayal reanimates creatures for our side of the battlefield easily.
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Mind Slash uses our small creatures as a way of discarding opponents' threats and gaining information.
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Necropotence draws a lot (A LOT) of cards.
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Phyrexian Reclamation is a way of recurring creatures in our yard, recasting them for generate value or target opponents' creatures.
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Retribution of the Ancients can target creatures even to give them -0/-0. They will be a target of an ability anyway, so Horobi's trigger will trigger.
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Revel in Riches is a way of ramping and also is an alternative win condition.
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This deck uses a lot of lands and artifacts that can target a creature, even for an useless ability for itself. The important part in most of the situations when we're doing this is just for target them. I will not explain and list every card individually.
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Agadeem's Awakening
is a reanimating card with low opportunity cost, so why not use it? =P
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Damnation and Toxic Deluge are our wipes. Toxic Deluge can also deal with creatures with indestructible.
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Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor for... well, tutor.
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Torment of Hailfire is a way of sinking mana for a game-changing or even game-winning effect. If we control the board with Horobi's trigger, the opponents' will probably have few permanents to sacrifice.
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Skeletal Scrying is a way of drawing a lot of cards using cards in our graveyard that we can't recover, so exiling them for this instant is a good strategy.
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Touch of Darkness is essentially a board wipe for only one black mana.
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Wretched Confluence can target creatures, but it's important also for its drawing and "reanimation" modes.
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Blasting Station is a combo piece and a way of targeting creatures.
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Bloodthirsty Blade can target creatures for only one colorless mana and, without Horobi, is a way of goading creatures.
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Caged Sun and Gauntlet of Power for mana generation.
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Cauldron of Souls is a way of wiping the board with Horobi on the field, but can also be used for giving our crearures persist to save our board and trigger ETB effects again.
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Hedron Archive can ramp and draw cards when its mana isn't needed.
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Mirage Mirror can copy an annoying permanent of our opponents', but can target creatures to destroy them with Horobi's trigger.
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Nihil Spellbomb is another way to deal with graveyards, alongside with Tymaret.
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Oblivion Stone is the only way of dealing with enchantments and artifacts inside this deck.
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Skullclamp is kinda useless with Horobi on the battlefield, but can draw a lot of cards for us when Horobi isn't on the field.
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Liliana, Dreadhorde General is a way to deal with creatures with indestructible, draw a lot of cards and it's ultimate isn't too difficult to activate and it's game-winning.
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Retribution of the Ancients + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Horobi + any non-Human with ETB effect: a) pay B, remove zero +1/+1 counters from any creature and give -0/-0 to target creature with a relevant ETB effect; b) the creature will die and, because of the undying, it will come back with a +1/+1 counter; c) pay B, remove one +1/+1 counter from the revived creature, targeting the creature itself to give it -1/-1. This loop will work for each B mana available.
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Retribution of the Ancients + Revel in Riches: pay B to destroy a creature, generate a Treasure token and use it to pay Retribution's activated ability afterwards.
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The combo above with Phyrexian Altar: after giving -1/-1 to the creature with ETB effect and Horobi's triggered ability is put onto the stack, maintain priority and sacrifice the creature generating B. This is an infinite combo and you can do this loop any number of times wanted.
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Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion: remove one +1/+1 counter from Triskelion to target anything you want. Remove another +1/+1 counter to target anything you want. The third +1/+1 counter must target Triskelion itself, destroying it. It will come back with a +1/+1 counter because of the undying plus its own +1/+1 counters from ETB effect.
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Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Puppeteer Clique + sac outlet: infinite enters the battefield effects. If the sac outlet is Blasting Station, it can deal infinite damage. If the sac outlet is Phyrexian Altar, it generates infinite mana of any color. With Pawn of Ulamog, it generates infinite Eldrazi tokens. With Pitiless Plunderer, it generates infinite Treasure tokens. With Demon of Dark Schemes, it generates infinite energy counters. With Ogre Slumlord, it generates infinite Rats.
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet + Blasting Station: With Horobi in play, tap Station to destroy a creature. Then exile it and create a zombie token with Kalitas. A creature will enter the battlefield, untapping Station.
