Soo this is bracket 3? Intent and functionality is explicitly part of the bracket design

This looks really cool!

I'm not sure how viable it is here but the two card classic combo of Archangel of Thune and Spike Feeder comes to mind when looking at your list. And alone, they each might provide at least a little value and synergy with the rest of your deck? Also spikes are just a neat creature type ^.^

Also I must know what other favorite books/media you have that have not yet made it into your decks - not many folx have ever heard of The Salt Grows Heavy, let alone enjoy it enough to reference

I really appreciate the level of thought and care into your suggestions on our Old School black deck ^.^ really, thank you

Ooh okay okay

Also love the title convention - really cool ^.^

Veethevvitch oooh that is pretty cool

I didn't know they had that printing!

Amazing title and very good book! <3

I don't know much about cEDH but this looks quite powerful! Have you had a chance to play it yet?

Aww thank you ^.^

Veethevvitch that is a really brutal synergy - and it would be really nice to actually have a way to answer artifacts in mono black. Old school black is essentially powerless against them :')

Thank you, Veethevvitch!

Contamination is a really good recommendation. I also saw it's gone down a lot since last we looked so that could be a great include

Karn is unfortunately way to modern for this deck but I really appreciate the thought!

Opponent: hope draining from their eyes

Ms. Bumbleflower: eyes staring; nose twitching excitedly

Hilarious and I love it

Such diabolic and sadistic glee shimmering behind those adorable shoe-button eyes

Amazing

Cataclysm is sooo fricken cool! I love how it forces players to make very brutal choices

It's much tinier and unfortunately doesn't hit lands but Do or Die is a favorite black card for us for similar reasons ^.^

legendofa never heard of it - I'll definitely have to check that out. Thank you!

Of course! ^.^ really cool to see someone not afraid to play mass land destruction. I actually find it's a really cool balancing valve. Awesome build!

capwner it's a really cool one! Unfortunately, I have not had a chance to play test the version 2 of this deck against anyone yet so I'm not entirely sure. We were also waffling on whether it would be useful to add a second copy in the sideboard. We can let you know more after we test it out a bit! And I'd love to hear your thoughts if you get a chance to try the card out as well.This build is intended to be quite grindy so I'm hoping it'll help in the late game

legendofa great question - hope you can bare with me while explaining this lol

So the original concept was for it to be a modular commander style deck where you would have a core of black cards and then randomly choose two of the areas/colors (and two lieges) as your commanders for the game. The problem here is that not all lieges match the theme and, a more reoccurring issue, is these creepy cards are just really not good lol

So we reexplored this project over the summer - inspired by Rougelikes such as Inscryption, you and a friend could team up, bring your own commander decks, and defeat wave after wave of hordes of creatures from area specific decks. The challenge here is that we wanted these enemy area decks to be self automated and would simply play themselves based off a structure of rules and conditions. This got complicated very quickly and finding which cards would be even possible to run autonomously was challenging. This list does not reflect that update but we did get a pretty good system going.

At the end of this experimentation, we also realized how challenging it would be for these auto decks to run against fully fledged commander decks and how complicated their board states could get. So, we took inspiration from another Rougelike, Absolume, and experimented with a new pivot where players would start out as different vanilla creatures and then level-up over the course of the game by drawing from different stages of level-up decks. They could also find treasure and draw one-time spells and more permanent equipment to help them on their journey. The trouble here is simply rules. We have several pages of ideas but we were trying to maximize use of established mtg rules for structure while making enough bends for the game to actually work. That's where the project has been left for now. We have a fat pack box worth of random spooky adjacent cards carefully selected into the many different decks which operate as cogs in this lil machine but have not fully play tested with other people to iron out any issues

I love this idea! Also amazing deck to show off, FormOverFunction

I'll share this weird little project we've been working on for years called Escape from Horrorland - it's not a normal deck but almost operates more like a board game. Still looking for spooky cards and still very much a prototype but y'all can take a look if anyone of interested

For an actual complete deck, it's gotta be An Old-School Nightmare - in fact Horrorland started as a way to find homes for the creepy, unique, yet very clunky cards cut from this deck. I really love the old style of cards and some of that art is just dripping with terror

Unfortunately cannot upvote this again but this is absolutely one of my favorite decks on Tappedout