My first memories of playing magic is opening my revised intro box which had a couple of tournament packs in it to start off my collection. I was immediately gripped by the combo of turn one Dark Ritual into Royal Assassin or Hypnotic Specter. Mono Black Control is one of my favourite pauper decks but it comes at a cost, namely Oubliette.
So I wondered whether there was a way to build Mono Black deck but without the major expense and using some more recently printed cards. Disfigure has just been reprinted in Core Set 2020 and Defile in Modern Horizons so we do have a sold removal base. Another card that has found its way into the occasional deck and sideboard is Ob Nixilis’s Cruelty and rightly so, it has the potential to exile many threats including Gurmag Angler.
- 16 Swamp
- 4 Witch’s Cottage
- 2 Bojuka Bog
- 4 Ninja of the New Moon
- 4 Blade Juggler
- 4 Whisper Agent
- 4 Audacious Thief
- 4 Dusk Legion Zealot
- 4 Changeling Outcast
- 4 Banehound
- 2 Ob Nixilis Cruelty
- 2 Disfigure
- 4 Defile
- 2 Unearth
- Sideboard
- 2 Disfigure
- 2 Diabolic Edict
- 2 Crypt Rat
- 3 Cartouche of Ambition
- 3 Burglar Rat
- 3 Shriekdiver
So the deck tries to drop a curve of aggressive creatures and creatures that also allow consistent card draw. To aid the raw power we slipped in a couple of cards from Modern Horzons in Changeling Outcast to evade blocking and Ninjitsu in a devastating Ninja of the New Moon
The deck is great fun as it has a range of removal to remove threats .
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