The Gate.

by Gregorion on 27 July 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (3)


Instants (6)

Artifacts (3)


Enchantments (3)

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Deck Tags

  • Aggro
  • Control
  • Legacy
  • Mono Black

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for The Gate.

Hi Gregorion,

Seems we share something in common. We both enjoy dark magic.
Your deck is a nice fun deck. Tourney black tends to be combo decks like Tendrils or Reanimator decks.

You've pick some nice cards but they aren't really working to make a killing machine.

Some ways to make your deck more of a threat. Use your graveyard. Much of the power of black is effective use of the graveyard.
The real power in black is reanimation, recursive zombies (bloodghast) for sacrificing to enchantments, or exiling key cards with Extirpate and Surgical Extration.

Yes black also has fast big creatures but what you really need to use is Dark Ritual or other mana enhances to really abuse them.

Here are some suggestions they could improve your deck without making it into a clone of another deck and keeping it Legacy legal.

I'm not a big fan of innocent blood except maybe side board. You might be better serve with Dark Ritual to bring out your fatties quicker or possibly a 2 Extirpate and 1 Hero's Downfall (if you are seeing alot of planeswalkers in your matches).

Gate Keeper either is an expense Diabolic Edict or a double black mana walking corpse. If instant speed sacrifice is important Geth's Verdict would be the better choice but if instant speed is not that important then Chainer's Edict might be better. If putting down a good 2 drop creature is important to use with your Jitte. Then Black Knight, Stromgald Crusader or even Bloodsoaked Champion might be a good substitution.

I don't know what to say about your Sensei's divining top. I'm so used to seeing it paired with counterbalance in Legacy. If you but it in for card draw. You'd likely be better off with Sign in Blood.

Bitterblossom is a very good card but you're not putting it to use. Maybe put in Demonlord of Ashmouth instead Phyrexian Obliterator.
Or maybe better still put in Vampiric Rites instead of Sensei's Divining Top.

Hope this helps.

May you always make your own good luck.

Planestalker

ps. Here's one of my Legacy black decks http://www.mtgvault.com/planestalker/decks/legacy-black-discard-deck/








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Posted 08 December 2015 at 07:21

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I really question a lot of these changes. I've made top 4 so far in the last 3 tournaments I've bin in with this deck. Obliterater is just too good to take out for ashmouth. Geth's are nice but they don't give me a body to block with after and they don't get around leyline of sanctity like innocent blood. The top goes really well for controlling my draw and if I can keep myself from getting dead draw's and lose a lot of life. Seems nice to me. I don't mean to sound rude but have you heard of the gate in Legacy?

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Posted 15 December 2015 at 18:03

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I do agree on the hero's down fall though That I will probably be changing.

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Posted 15 December 2015 at 18:04

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