Scale it Black

Casual Mono-Black

ClockworkSwordfish

Creature (20)

• 4x Chittering Rats
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 3x Guiltfeeder
• 4x Liliana's Specter
• 3x Slithering Shade
• 2x Unliving Psychopath
• 3x Vampire Spawn

Land (23)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 22x Swamp

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Cabal Therapy
• 3x Sign in Blood

Artifact (7)

• 4x Noetic Scales
• 3x Scepter of Fugue

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Phyrexian Arena

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 2x Baleful Beholder
• 4x Lifebane Zombie
• 1x Thief of Blood

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Maybeboard

Creature (15)

• 1x Dream Devourer
• 1x Gatekeeper of Malakir
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Gloomdrifter
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kiln Walker
• 1x Maga, Traitor to Mortals
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Nullpriest of Oblivion
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Pierce Strider
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
• 1x Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Warped Devotion

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Despise

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Huge creatures got ya down? Dragons, demons, angels and wurms rule the late game, where their huge stats can overwhelm creature and player alike. Another defining feature of the late game is that players are usually running low on available cards, and Noetic Scales can turn this fact to your advantage. You can slow huge creatures down by forcing your opponent to hold cards back in order to keep them in play. Meanwhile, no-power nellies like Guiltfeeder and Unliving Psychopath will never be sent slithering back to your own hand.

Reusable discard like Scepter of Fugue ensure your opponent will never field a creature bigger than a kobold, and Cabal Therapy can take a critter out of the picture permanently once it's been bounced. And why stop with your opponent's creatures? A small hand lets you bounce your own Liliana's Specter, Vampire Spawn or even Gonti for repeated use.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 4 Rares 7 - 1 Uncommons 14 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.81