Shallow Grave (Starting Black/..

by Fall3nK1ng on 14 June 2012

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Deck Description

Still editing my first deck. Bought a black /red intro pack and I'm still trying to beat my friends. Finally won with this build!

Looking to put maybe $10-15 into magic cards nothing more really as I'm a casual player. So any advice or nice cards to swap in here would be appreciated.

My strategy with this deck is to bring back creatures to my field from the graveyard. Sacrifice and bring them back with undying effects or other spells. All the while trying to keep the enemy from getting too many monsters on their side.

Deck Tags

  • Casual

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

003550

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Shallow Grave (Starting Black/Red Deck)

My fiance bought this pre-constructed as well and this is what we turned it into:

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=337750

Cost us about 20 dollars so maybe a little bit more money than you're looking to spend.. but that's nto too hard to adjust :)

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Posted 14 June 2012 at 09:03

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Yeah Parasites are great with undying :)

When buying pre-constructed the key when you are going to develop them further is to find out the key-cards in the deck (to you). Because it varies from person to person depending on what direction you want to take a deck.

There are plenty of people that will tell you "that's wrong" but if there's one thing I have learned with magic it's more about finding YOUR playstyle and adjusting the decks after that rather than just playing with the most uber cards in the format.

I've not been to many advanced tournaments but my "quirky" decks tend to do very well at FNM's where most people just copy the latest FOTM deck.

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Posted 14 June 2012 at 09:55

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Shopped around for some cards today. I'm really liking the way this build is headed. Going to start a little combo with Hex Parasite, Blood Artist, & Demonic Taskmaster. Also get extra creatures in there with a few Bloodline Keepers!

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Posted 14 June 2012 at 17:07

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The deck looks a lot better! Keep working on it and am looking forward to see what you do with the combo.

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Posted 14 June 2012 at 21:18

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Thanks! V.3 of this deck will be mono black and rely heavily on the Blood Artists, Sacrificing, & Undying. Here are some of the cards I got today!

3x Hex Parasite
3x Blood Artists
2x Demonic Taskmaster
3x Blood Seeker
3x Go for the Throat
2x Bloodline Keeper

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Posted 15 June 2012 at 07:09

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I do't think that price range is high enough to compete with other moderate/well players

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Posted 15 June 2012 at 04:33

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Not really trying to. This is mostly just to play my few other friends who have cards who are pretty new to the game as well.

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Posted 15 June 2012 at 06:57

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Going Mono black is probably the right move, you don't miss out on anything really awesome except for maybe the flayers..

I like the way you're going with the deck, but don't forget to update the decklist so I can try some draws :D

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Posted 16 June 2012 at 02:05

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