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BMoor's Magic The Gathering Deck Garage
Sanguine Bond and Korlash Monoblack Deck
August 20, 20
09

Greetings, once again to BMoor's Deck Garage.

I should probably explain why I hadn't fixed a deck in so long. Well, after the contest, M10 hit the Magic world by storm, and it took all of us some time to absorb what this meant for Standard as well as Magic in general. Then we learned that there were shortages of M10 all over the country, and perhaps the world, which made acquiring any cards to playtest with difficult. And, of course, Zendikar is less than six weeks away, which makes it hard to build and fix decks in the Standard format-- I don't want to recommend cards from Lorwyn or Shadowmoor block, but that's almost half of Standard that nobody wants to touch anymore.

Clearly late summer is a tricky time for Standard. Luckily for Jnr (yes, that's his name), his deck isn't Standard, so I can do whatever I want with it.

 
 Hey, My name is Jnr an im from NZ
 
 This is a
 Sanguine Bond and Korlash Deck
 Monoblack

 

 Deck as follow

 
 3x Cabal Coffers
 17x swamps
 1x Urbog,
 
 21 Lands
 
 Creatures
 4 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
 2 Nightmares
 1 Magus of coffers
 
 7 Creatures
 
 Spells
 
 3 Consume Spirits

 4 Tendrils of Corruption
 2 Corrupt
 2 Cranial Extration
 3 stitch Together
 4 Duress
 3 Infest

 3 Sign in Blood
 1 Imp Mischief
 2 Dashes Hopes
 
 27 Spells
 
 Enchantments
 
 3 Sanguine Bond
 2 Pestilence
 2 Phyrexian
 Arena
 
 7 Enchanments
 
 62 Cards
 
 
 i just created this i dont know if  it will work. i dont have some of the cards, i was just
 assuming you probably will have these cards. Could you try  it out and see if its any good.
 
 Thanks.

 

The deck looks pretty strong, Jnr, but there is one detail that jumps out at me. Sanguine Bond and Korlash don't interact with each other in any useful way. One counts Swamps and lets you search up more of them, the other triggers off life gain and gives you life loss in return.

The common link seems to be Corrupt, which turns Swamps into damage and life gain, which Sanguine Bond turns into more life loss. So really, this deck seems to be about all the ways Black rewards you for playing more and more black.

Let's run with that. You could really use some more creatures, so how about a few Crowd of Cinders. Phyrexian Arena is a wonderful card even when you don't run a lot of lifegain, so let's bump that up to a full four copies. Imp's Mischief and Dash Hopes can come out to help with these additions-- they're not very good. :(

Also, if you're counting Swamps, try Leechridden Swamp. It's a Swamp naturally, so you can fetch it with Korlash and count it towards Corrupt even without an Urborg in play, and its ability will give you another way to plink away at opponents.

If you find that your opponents' creatures are overwhelming your life gain and defeating you, the best thing you can do is to grab a playset of Mutilate. Sadly, your creatures will die to it no matter how many Swamps you control, but so will your opponents. This could replace Infest if your opponents typically don't rely on 2-toughness creatures. If not, then you may as well keep Infest-- it's cheaper, and your Nightmares and Korlash will live through it. I assume so, anyway, since if you had enough Swamps to cast them, Korlash must be at least a 4/4 and Nightmare is at least a 6/6.

Finally, just because the card amuses me greatly, I want to recommend Enslave. It helps with your low creature count, it removes one of their creatures, it counts as a black permanent for Crowd of Cinders, and it gives you another way to inflict direct life loss on your opponents.

Good luck to you, Jnr!

~BMoor
 

 

 


 

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