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ck3gds
Joined: 21 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: Mono-Black Control (MBC) |
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I like the card Living End, both for its potential power and its flavour, so I decided to build a deck around it, but in the end I get something akin to MBC. Anyway here it is, please give me your comments, thanks!
| Quote: | | Mono-Black Control v1.0 |
3 Desert
3 Scrying Sheets
2 Mouth of Ronom
16 Snow-Covered Swamps
3 Smallpox
4 Living End
4 Funeral Charm
3 Tendrils of Corruption
4 Nantuko Husk
4 Dark Confidant
4 Festering Goblin
4 Plagued Rusalka
3 Hypnotic Specter
3 Tormod's Crypt
Desert - as a means of dealing with aggro decks
Snow lands - Scrying Sheets give an additional facet of card advantage, so I want to make full use of it.
Smallpox & Funeral Charm - Versatile control cards at a cheap cost
Tendrils of Corruption - for creature removal and also to offset the loss of life due to Dark Confidant (pity it doesn't hit players)
Nantuko Husk - sacrifice outlet numero uno, potential heavy hitter
Dark Confidant - card advantage
Festering Goblin & Plagued Rusalka - creature removal; tag team for double the power
Hypnotic Specter - fairly reliable means of disabling the opponent
Tormod's Crypt - remove his graveyard from play 
Note: why I chose this over Withered Wretch is because it costs 0 and costs nothing to activate. I can use its ability in response to the resolution of Living End.
| Quote: | | How to go about playing this deck? |
Play the cheap creatures to provide the beats and deter early aggression. Aim to drop Bob ASAP to capitalise on the card advantage. Keep his hand to a low if possible, and just keep beating in until Living End resolves.
When Living End resolves, here's the ideal situation:
1. In response to Living End, sacrifice all the creatures you control (making good use of them in the process)
2. Activate Tormod's Crypt, targetting your opponent's graveyard
3. Living End resolves...
YOU - remove your graveyard from the game, sacrifice nothing, return your graveyard to play
HIM - remove nothing from the game, sacrifice everything, return nothing to play
Pure unfairness, if you ask me.
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As usual, I'd appreciate constructive comments, thanks! Have a nice day everyone! |
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Synch-
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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turn 1 festering goblin
turn 2 dark confidant (or other 1 toughness creature(s)
opponent plays helix/seal of fire/hammer/shock/darkblast/mortify/etc etc on the goblin and bags a really nice 2 for 1. |
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ck3gds
Joined: 21 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Synch- wrote: | turn 1 festering goblin
turn 2 dark confidant (or other 1 toughness creature(s)
opponent plays helix/seal of fire/hammer/shock/darkblast/mortify/etc etc on the goblin and bags a really nice 2 for 1. |
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but I think you misunderstood something. Even if the opponent does kill my Festering Goblin, I get to choose the target, not the opponent. |
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WasD
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| ck3gds wrote: | | Synch- wrote: | turn 1 festering goblin
turn 2 dark confidant (or other 1 toughness creature(s)
opponent plays helix/seal of fire/hammer/shock/darkblast/mortify/etc etc on the goblin and bags a really nice 2 for 1. |
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but I think you misunderstood something. Even if the opponent does kill my Festering Goblin, I get to choose the target, not the opponent. |
the only creature remained in play is ur confidant |
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ck3gds
Joined: 21 Jun 2005
Posts: 238
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| WasD wrote: | | ck3gds wrote: | | Synch- wrote: | turn 1 festering goblin
turn 2 dark confidant (or other 1 toughness creature(s)
opponent plays helix/seal of fire/hammer/shock/darkblast/mortify/etc etc on the goblin and bags a really nice 2 for 1. |
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but I think you misunderstood something. Even if the opponent does kill my Festering Goblin, I get to choose the target, not the opponent. |
the only creature remained in play is ur confidant |
Well of course you don't always play out your Dark Confidant without protection, do you? I assume you should know better?  |
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CHRONICBL
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| I would get rid of tendrils. Four mana and not being a guaranteed creature kill. Does not seem very good. |
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BigShow
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Location: Igloo town
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| thats not control in anyway, scrap that everything, and add cabal coffers and other good cards like diobolic tutor and other crap |
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theboomshite
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| this deck is not very strong if you want a casual deck try building the extended helldozer control its still mbc but its extended legal and its very good |
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BigShow
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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Location: Igloo town
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| consume spirit? |
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ck3gds
Joined: 21 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually I'm trying to keep this within T2 because it's a bit hard for me to get Extended-legal cards, but I'll take note of your suggestions. |
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mekillaman
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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MBC was good 4 years ago mainly becuase of mutilate and duress, without quality card pool, it is just a bad archtype.
In a control deck, you ususally want to run phy. arena over bob, since you lose more life with bob, and it is much easier to remove. |
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Onkel420
Joined: 23 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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I don't think you need any of the colorless lands in my opinion, except maybe desert. They even hurt Tendrils (a cards I'd remove too). Try Nether Traitor, it works well with Plagued Rusalka. I don't know about Funeral Charm, I'd add something more powerful than versatile. Don't forget that you're aggro. So I'd play Withered Wretch instead of the Crypt, or maybe something like 4 Wretch and 1-2 Crypt. After all Crypt pretty much does nothing without Living End.
Maybe Sengir Autocrat as fodder for Husk? Bad Moon? Maybe even add some dredge cards (Darkblast instead of Charm)? They work nicely with Nether Traitor. And probably 2 Arenas along the 4 Confidants. Get your creature count up to 23-24, 19 is kinda low.  |
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