Black Hand strong in extended?

Berzerker · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 44

Ok, I made a black hand deck for extended season on mws. Honestly I didn't think it was very good, but I have beaten almost every deck thats teir 1 right now. It won in 3 agains boros deck wins, has beaten numerous tron variations, wrecks tooth and nail, and even beaten several rougue decks. I personally think that this deck may be very viable this comming season. Here is the Decklist as it stands.

Lands:
1x Urza's Factory
4x Blinkmoth Nexus
1x Cabal Pit
15x Swamps
3x Bloodstained Mire

Creatures:
4x Ravenous Rats
4x Dark Confidant
1x Nezumi Shortfang
3x Withered Wretch

Spells:
3x Sudden Death
3x Funeral Charm
3x Stupor
4x Smallpox
4x The Rack
3x Cabal Therapy
4x Duress

Sideboard:
(Still may need a little bit of tweaking)
1x Biseiju, Who Shelters All
3x Mutilate
3x Persecute
4x Cranial Extraction
4x Pithing Needle

Tell me what you think, how it can be improved, and if you don't like it at all, tell me specifically why. This deck has really surprised me at how consistant it is, try it out and see if you have the same luck.

HPempire · Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 113

needs mutilate, cabal coffers, more fetches, nantuko husk, pyrexian totem/scruta/plaguelord for MD. Main deck 1 engineered plague also for a chance vs gobbos and decree of justice. The rack isn't a strong enough win condition, hence u need the above said. Cruel edict/kokusho is always good to. The fetchies are a must b/c they let u get better draws wehn then thin your deck out of lands. GL with the MBC

Berzerker · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 44

well you make a good point with the weakness of the rack, however, I have found that I win most often with the lands simply because they have nothing on the board and no hand and resort to topdecking. The few times I play goblins they would get a few goblins out and be out of a hand, all I had to deal with at that point was 3 or 4 goblins, which is easy to hand when you have the rack out, but plague for the sideboard may not be a bad idea. I also want to keep my mana curve as low as possible, scuta and plaguelord are too expensive, and also I had totems in here, but I did not find them very useful agains all of the burn out there. Thanks for your imput though, I appreciate other viewpoints.

Club_Funk · Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 39

Nantuko Shade.
Hand of Cruelty.

Umezawa's Jitte.

All these should should be considered... as they are too powerful to ignore.

Also Consider Plague Sliver. Its the Juzam of the deck.

sc4rs · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 390

You're playing 24 lands, and no Chrome Mox.

Take out four lands for Moxes, please.

Plus, you're playing way too many creatures for Smallpox. Confused

Replace it with some other win condition, I'd say.