Legacy Black Control

Thanks, appreciate the fast comment. I usually have to proxy my dual lands alot so I wanted a deck to compete with Merfolk in Legacy, but be at the same time monocolored. What do you think of Cabal Therapy and Bloodghast?

cabal therapy is a great card and that bloodghast is sick, i am not really into vampires but that card is undeniable good especially with how you are using it in this deck. its annoying when you can bring back a creature with haste turn after turn

I am not a fan of Vampires either, I think Wizards just created a more abundant number of them to appeal to the popculture and subculture that sprang up from it. Seriously, thats how I really feel about. Bloodghast isnt really great, he just works in SOME decks like this one. I dont know if I would play him if I wasnt running Crucible of Worlds, Innocent Blood, and Cabal Therapy... without those he really doesnt help that much and I would rather play something else, but because he interacts so well with all of them it made perfect sense. Especially Crucible of Worlds + Wasteland + Bloodghast.

BTW, this is the final cut of a prototype build I let a friend play at Grand-Prix Columbus. I used the tournament to refine the deck while I played in the main event. My coverage of that is in the forums under The Competitive Edge.

awesome, i will check out the article on that. i would imagine the deck worked really well in competitive play

Thanks, but fortunately Strip Mine is banned in Legacy. Thank the gods it is. That is why you play the single Ghost Quarter to eliminate single basic lands and such people play.

i really like the art work for ghost quarter

Oh crap I didn't even know that, seriously though this deck looks pretty sick.

Thanks, its alright.

Starting Hand: Mishra's Factory, Innocent Blood, Swamp, Swamp, Wasteland, Cabal Therapy, Swamp.

First Turn: Swamp, Cabal Therapy.
Second Turn: Draw a Sinkhole. Play Swamp, then cast Sinkhole.
Third Turn: Draw a Tombstalker. Wasteland.

Yeah most definetly, I only included the 1 Fetchland in this deck because you lose so many of your own lands while playing the deck to begin with that you really want to draw lands. Most of the time I play 4 or more.

which is suprising, because rad decks dont find themselves on the front page often.

Why is that?

i have no idea. the people on this site just arent into land destruction, control, or prison decks. everyone on here mostly, just plays new cards. new cards are corney and lame, imo.

You are 100% incorrect. :) http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Resources.aspx?x=judge/resources/sfrlegacy nice try though.

No I havent, I could easily play Urborg just because! Its not like it has any downside, it doesnt come into play tap and it still adds black with no penalty. I guess it makes sense to just throw it into decks simply because it does effectively the same as a Swamp I guess it comes down to do I really need it? Probably not, but still I guess it could stop someone from using a First Strike creature on me and it does stop one more way someone could try and sneak something through. Ill add it!

Awesome I also had the idea of maybe putting a karakas in the deck for extra bounce control too, though its white mana, so you'd be increasing the chances of drawing less black mana producing lands. yagmoth's tomb can help alleviate that, but yeah, just another idea i had. You can bounce legends back into peoples hands with karakas so long as they do not have shroud. anyways just another idea that came to mind.

True, but you see when it comes to Legacy everything has to be efficient and exactly perfectly tended to. I have ways of dealing with those big guys like Innocent Blood and Smallpox. In the long run it just isnt necessary, and in Legacy the only Legends youll probably see are reanimated ones... and those die easy to the cards listed because its usually their only creature. It just doesnt make sense when I may have to take a Mulligan because I only was able to draw a Karakas ya know? My 42 Land Deck plays Karakas though.

No lol I dont think so.

I dont need Duress and Thoughtseize. I know how to play Legacy and I know what to name and choose wisely, especially because all I have to do is use Cabal Therapy's Flashback ability. I am good enough at Legacy to know what to name, its just not necessary for me to do when I already KNOW what to name. Get rid of the one of Extirpate? Fat chance, its a card that you only need one of main board to surprise the opponnet just like Profane Command is. If they can recover and you have spent most of your ammunition, against another creature deck MY creatures dont stand a chance. All Bloodgast can do is sit back and block and return to play over and over again. Using Profane Command I can lower their health while sneaking through with fear using Bloodghast or Mishra's Factory. Innocent Blood? If I remove Innocent Blood how do I deal with big creatures that are reanimated? I could use Smallpox to remove them, but what if I can not afford to lose my own things but need to remove theirs? I dont need the Ill-Gotten Gains because I really dont need to tutor up old cards or anything, its a very consistant deck as is. Thanks for the looking though.

Type 1 is Vintage. Type 1.5 is now called Legacy. You also have Extended and Standard. Here is the link to the OFFICIAL Banned and Restricted list and for Vintage and Legacy, as well as the sets that can be used in Standard and Extended:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Resources.aspx?x=judge/resources/banned

Hope this helps you out and welcome to the game! :)

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I like it as well, just for extra mana but it would end up being another card Iwould just end up playing 1 of and if I do draw it in my opening hand and only have it... then I really cannot go any further and will be forced to take a Mulligan. Kinda sucks, but it is something I would play only as a 1 of and I still would only have 1 place to dump excess Mana which is Profane Command.