Mono Black Rogues: Elves Kryponite?

noobmellow · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 97

Mono Black Rogues

16 Swamp
4 Mutavault

4 Prickly Boggart
4 Nightshade Stinger
4 Frogtosser Banneret
4 Oona's Blackgaurd
4 Stink-Drinker Bandit

4 Thoughtseize
4 Warren Wierding
4 Nameless Inversion
4 Noggin Whack
4 Morsel Theft

Sideboard
4 Earwig Squad
4 Festercreep
4 Cloak and Dagger
3 Bitterblossom

I came up with the list shortly after Morningtide came out because I really liked the prowl rogue idea.

Playing this deck is pretty simple.

1. Play a 1 drop creature (Prickly Boggart over Stinger because you can sac him to Weirding later when you have blackgaurd out and you can play stinger later to get a counter) or play thoughtseize.

2. On the second turn you would like to get a blackgaurd out. If not then a Banneret is decent or you can prowl out a noggin wack or morsel theft.

3. On turn 3 if you have a blackgaurd out try and play a a banneret followed by a wierding sacing prickly boggart. that nets you 2 2/2 specters and a another 2/2 specter banneret. If your try and sneak damage through to make your opponent discard to get card advantage.

4 Once you have a bunch of weenies you can sneak in kill damage by hardcasting bandit to get in more damage for the kill using inversion to clear the way.

It should be noted that with banneret you can play everything for 1 mana. it is crucial to play multiple cards per turn to kill your opponent before they can stabilize and you run out of cards.

I would like advice on the sb cause its crap.

The reason i dont run earwig in the main is because by turn 3 its a little slow and i would rather be playing 3 cards instead of one fatty.

Comments, theories, suggestings and flaming would be greatly appreciated.

~mellow

ChuckNorris · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 105

Bitterblossom needs to be main 4x.

kfcman · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 665

Yea i agree, bitterblossom x4 is a necessity.
makes prowl sooo easy and is a great reloading tool against control decks and a good card advantage tool against the other aggro.

Orlandu · Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 156

While I don't have much experience with the deck, from playing with and against him in extended all season, Earwig is a beating. He's essentially an all-upside negator, or as close to one as we're gonna get. Don't know where he fits in the deck, just wanted to mention that.

ChuckNorris · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 105

[quote="noobmellow"]Mono Black Rogues

16 Swamp
4 Mutavault

4 Prickly Boggart
4 Nightshade Stinger
4 Frogtosser Banneret
4 Oona's Blackgaurd
4 Stink-Drinker Bandit

4 Thoughtseize
4 Warren Wierding
4 Nameless Inversion
4 Noggin Whack
4 Morsel Theft

Sideboard
4 Earwig Squad
4 Festercreep
4 Cloak and Dagger
3 Bitterblossom

-4 Warren Wierding (Kinda sucks in a format with bitterblossom, and where goblins is a deck)
-4 Banneret (all your stuff is cheap anyway)

+4 Bitterblossom (obv)
+4 Earwing Squad or Oona's Prowler, or some mixture.

I really have no idea how this deck will beat faeries. Good luck though.

center425 · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 334

Oona's prowler is awful right now.

noobmellow · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 97

its good to point out that goblins are played alot but it should also be noted that i mainly use it for sacing a bogart to get 2 specters. bitterblossom is good but it may seem a little slow. i know my stuff is cheap but thats the point. it has to be explosive. like 1 spell turn 1 2 spells turn 2 and 3 turn 3 and win turn 4.

davidb · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

hi
i recently (today) built a rogue deck
it is unbeaten until now (i have indeed played quite some games)
this strategy is interesting i think
not sure about morsel theft though
and the sideboard definitely needs some help
if you have experience with the deck post your thoughts
thanks

4 mutavault
1 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
1 pendelhaven
17 swamps

4 prickley boggart
4 nightshade stinger

4 oonas blackguard
4 oonas prowler
4 stinkdrinker bandit

4 earwig squad

4 bitterblossom
3 morsel theft
2 profane command

sideboard:

4 extirpate
4 thoughtseize
4 shriekmaw
3 cloak and dagger

noobmellow · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 97

your deck is standard. i am building for lbc

ChuckNorris · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 105

noobmellow · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 97

Noobsauce · Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 27

the only problem I see is that firespout rips you a new one and a half.