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Reducing deck for play

I'm kind of a new player, I bought this deck already made but It seems to big. It plays fine I've only lost once with it messing around but combo's would come out much faster if it was reduced. I'm not quite sure what to take out some tips would by nice. My current deck consist of 100 cards all black :manab: and I'm looking to bring it down quite a bit, here's a list of my cards what should stay and what should go?

Artifacts
1x [CARD="front"]Bonesplitter
1x [CARD="front"]Power Armor
1x [CARD="front"]Herbal Poultice
1x [CARD="front"]Stone Golem
1x [CARD="front"]Platinum Emperion
1x [CARD="front"]Demon's Horn
1x [CARD="front"]Thran Golem
1x [CARD="front"]Blazing Torch
Creatures
1x [CARD="front"]Enemy of the Guildpact
1x [CARD="front"]Entropic Eidolon
1x [CARD="front"]Deathspore Thallid
1x [CARD="front"]Darkling Stalker
1x [CARD="front"]Unworthy Dead
1x [CARD="front"]Deathgreeter
1x [CARD="front"]Wall of Bone
3x [CARD="front"]Blood Seeker
1x [CARD="front"]Guul Draz Vampire
1x [CARD="front"]Jagwasp Swarm
1x [CARD="front"]Hand of Emrakul
1x [CARD="front"]Ulamog's Crusher
1x [CARD="front"]Cadaver Imp
1x [CARD="front"]Guul Draz Assassin
1x [CARD="front"]Grave Titan
1x [CARD="front"]Blind Zealot
1x [CARD="front"]Sheoldred, Whispering One
1x [CARD="front"]Artisan of Kozilek
1x [CARD="front"]Dark Hatchling
1x [CARD="front"]Shriekmaw
1x [CARD="front"]Vampire Nighthawk
3x [CARD="front"]Child of Night
1x [CARD="front"]Sengir Vampire
2x [CARD="front"]Tormented Soul
1x [CARD="front"]Zombie Goliath
1x [CARD="front"]Diregraf Ghoul
1x [CARD="front"]Markov Patrician
Enchantments
1x [CARD="front"]Clinging Darkness
1x [CARD="front"]Necromancer's Magemark
1x [CARD="front"]Exotic Curse
1x [CARD="front"]Quag Sickness
1x [CARD="front"]Enslave
1x [CARD="front"]Glistening Oil
1x [CARD="front"]Attrition
1x [CARD="front"]Vow of Malice
Land
35x [CARD="front"]Swamp
Spells
1x [CARD="front"]Disembowel
1x [CARD="front"]Last Gasp
1x [CARD="front"]Fatal Blow
1x [CARD="front"]Vicious Hunger
1x [CARD="front"]Morbid Hunger
1x [CARD="front"]Rancid Earth
1x [CARD="front"]Exsanguinate
1x [CARD="front"]Grasp of Darkness
1x [CARD="front"]Morbid Plunder
1x [CARD="front"]Caress of Phyrexia
1x [CARD="front"]Praetor's Grasp
1x [CARD="front"]Doom Blade
1x [CARD="front"]Nemesis Trap
1x [CARD="front"]Disentomb
1x [CARD="front"]Hideous Visage
1x [CARD="front"]Mind Rot
1x [CARD="front"]Wring Flesh
1x [CARD="front"]Ghoulcaller's Chant
1x [CARD="front"]Tribute to Hunger
Posted 02 December 2011 at 14:58

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This deck is of a different format than Standard. What you bought was a commander deck, and if you are looking to cut back for standard play, you will need to get rid of most of those cards (as they aren't standard legal). I would recommend for you to, instead of cutting this deck down, start building a 60 card deck from scratch. First I would suggest you read up on some guides on how to build a deck and about how to make your deck legal in different formats (including casual).

As a starting point, a 60 card deck generally aims for having 24 lands, 20 creatures, and 16 spells. From there you want your casting costs to enable you to casts spells almost every turn pretty reliably, as well as granting you a few cards that can win you the game on their own. Once you have this template down, you can start to customize your deck to fit the strategy that you want to go for.

I understand that these pointers are vague, but with the list you've given, I can't really help you since you are trying to turn a 100 card commander deck into a 60 card standard deck and that's practically impossible.
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Posted 02 December 2011 at 22:15

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