Traditional Historic - Mono-Black Midrange

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Overview:

This is a Historic mono-black midrange deck built around Phylactery Lichimage and Phyrexian Obliteratorimage. I found the devotion build with Gray Merchant of Asphodelimage to be unreliable and slow, so I built the deck without weak devotion creatures like Tymaret, Chosen from Deathimage or Yarok's Fenlurkerimage. This opened up more card slots for artifacts and spells to make the deck more competitive against the historic metagame. 

To enable Phylactery Lichimage, cheap artifacts like Shadowspearimage, Grafdigger's Cageimage, and Treasure Map // Treasure Coveimage are necessary to play the Lich on curve. Treasure Map // Treasure Coveimage has a neat interaction where phylactery counters from Phylactery Lich stay on the permanent when Treasure Map transforms, making the Lich even harder to remove since the counters are on a land.

Karn, Scion of Urzaimage, Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotzimage, Castle Locthwainimage, and Treasure Map // Treasure Coveimage are the card-advantage engines of the deck. Karn can also make artifact creatures for phylactery counters, and these creatures get boosted by Treasure tokens from transforming a Treasure Map. I like a one-of Arguel's Blood Fast as a faster Castle Locthwain.

Enchanting a Phylactery Lichimage with Eternal Thirstimage is fun combo to annihilate red mages with a 5/5 indestructible lifelinker. Knight of the Ebon Legionimage is also a good target for Eternal Thirst in the mid- to late-game once you can pump it up. Eternal Thirstimage is very powerful in the right matchups, and its ability to add +1/+1 counters shouldn't be ignored.

Phyrexian Obliteratorimage is the curve-topper capable of taking over games by itself. Exceptional against aggro decks, but is weaker in control matchups.

 

Sideboard:

Languishimage and Ritual of Sootimage are sweepers for matchups like Elves and Mono-White lifegain that go too wide for the main deck to handle.

Drag to the Underworldimage replaces Never // Returnimage in matchups where the opponent is not playing planeswalkers, and instant-speed removal is more imperative (i.e., Questing Beastimage).

Noxious Graspimage against green or white decks.

Damping Sphereimage against Forsaken Monumentimage, Nissa, Who Shakes the Worldimage, and Arclight Phoeniximage decks.

Leyline of the Voidimage against Rakdos Arcanist, Lurrus of the Dream-Denimage, and any other deck that relies on its graveyard.

Grafdigger's Cageimage against graveyard decks, Jund Sacrifice, Collected Companyimage, and Muxus, Goblin Grandeeimage.

Underworld Dreamsimage against Gandalfs (Blue-White Control).

Vraska's Contemptimage for when instant-speed exile is really important.

 

 

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Chahzel
Last Updated: 06 Apr 2021
Created: 06 Apr 2021
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Mainboard - 60 cards (17 distinct)

Creature (14)
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$0.35€0.150.02
$8.97€7.510.14
$0.25€0.140.03
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (21)
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Land (22)
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Planeswalker (3)
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Sideboard - 15 cards (9 distinct)

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$0.25€0.220.03
$2.50€1.040.03
$0.24€0.060.03
$0.75€0.740.90
$2.31€1.860.20

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