Shaders Required

by Anon88 on 25 February 2025

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Main Deck (99 cards)

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Deck Description

This is my take at a Shade's tribal deck with a focus exploiting your mana base with mana doubling and swamp matters cards.

Main goal is to establish a board state and build up as many swamps as you can before unleashing a torrent of fear and anguish.

Deck Tags

  • EDH
  • Tribal
  • Mono Black
  • Casual

Deck at a Glance

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Shaders Required

Ah, good memories here. I always tried to make shades work but outside of pumping them full of mana, I always struggled. This is a very cool build.

For those not in the know, wizard's later printing of Ishan's Shade has 'Knight' and 'Shade' as the creature types.

Some immediate considerations:
This deck is screaming for Kindred Dominance, Cabal Coffers and Cabal Stronghold to be included.
I'd also consider Lake of the Dead even though it starts out at a loss, it's convenience for extra mana is useful.
Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual should be in this unless they're on a ban list for the format you're building for.
Anything to help pump those shades.

Some slower 'late game pay-off' cards to consider.
Spoils of Evil could be a useful late game mana ramp to power your more expensive spells. It also can gain you life.
Rain of Filth effectively doubles your mana production for one turn but at a cost of sacrificing the land.

Lastly, I think this is on brand for this deck, throw in The Immortal Sun for good measure if you want to consider dropping Liliana of the Dark Realms.

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Posted 26 February 2025 at 04:33

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Many thanks for the like and suggestions, I tweaked the deck slightly.

I try to avoid looking at expensive cards like Cabal Coffers and Cabal Stronghold to keep my decks affordable to anyone who wishes to try them out. That is unless they are crucial for the deck to function and I have no choice in the matter.

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Posted 26 February 2025 at 08:58

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Fully understand. Just wanted to make sure they were there in case they were missed. :)

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Posted 27 February 2025 at 04:21

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