Standard Black Devotion

by Mooshu038 on 27 January 2020

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (3)


Enchantments (7)

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Deck Description

This deck is a mono black devotion deck.

With the inclusion of many powerful black devotion cards from Theros Beyond Death (& GARY!) and some good black cards from prior sets, I think a similar style deck could start to see more competitive play.

Feel free to leave a comment on improvements/how you think the standard meta will progress with the release of Theros Beyond Death.

How to Play

This deck has many capabilities including card draw and killing your opponent.
Cat-Oven is great for drawing cards
Dread Presence is a no brainer because it allows for direct life drain or card draw
Ob Nixilis and Underworld Dreams is good at dealing passive damage against opponents drawing to many cards.

The Sideboard is built to combat against a couple things including:
Aggro > Revenge of Ravens
Green aggro/control/midrange > Blightbeetle
Graveyard > Leyline of the Void

Deck Tags

  • Mono Black
  • Competitive
  • Standard
  • Budget
  • Graymerchant

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Deck Format


Standard

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Standard Black Devotion

I feel there isn't enough food production to make the cat abuse consistent enough. If you splashed green, and I mean a very small amount, you could run cards like Goose or giant opportunity to really abuse the cat.

Theory craft.
-1 Underworld Dreams +4 Goose
-1 Witches +2 Giant opportunity
-1 Nyx Lotus
-1 Gary
-1 Cavalier
-1 Dread

This makes the cats a viable win con I feel.

Alternatively if you don't want to splash green you could go with something like this. https://www.mtgvault.com/navydivea/decks/standard-black-devotion/

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Posted 28 January 2020 at 02:19

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In theory, the Cat Oven combo isn't the win con of the deck. A combination of the life drain from Dread Presence, Ob Nixilis & Underworld Dreams and Gary to finish. I feel that a win condition with a bit more than 2 components becomes a bit harder to deal with because it forces your opponent to handle multiple different situations at once.

The deck is really cool too! I completely overlooked Deathless Knight and think he is a good card for a Black or Green Devotion deck.

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Posted 28 January 2020 at 02:29

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The idea of my build was more about abusing the consistent life drain along with more control, with constant pressure mid game with Gutterbones and Knight. You can even get Knight back on their turn by popping food. I also made Priest the center piece because shes so good.

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Posted 28 January 2020 at 03:26

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