Last Dance For Suicide Black

I really, really, really recommend you keeping any decks that you might
seriously consider using under wraps until either you don't qualify or after
the invitational rather than posting it on pojo. I'd doubt if any of the
competitors are going to get in any serious playtesting. Giving them a heads
up on any kind of deck tech would be a serious disadvantage.

I hope you qualify. Keep in mind that you might have won the invitational
last year if you'd used my "Hey Nice Hat" card suggestion. <g>

The terra-forming cards are almost irresistable and many of the cards in the
format are expensive. That combination means probably several of the decks
in the field are going to be slow. Getting a couple of random wins under
your belt could be good.



Deck name: Last Dance for Suicide Black

Black creatures

4 Nightfall Hag (when this comes into play, discard hand at EOT)
4 Decaying Corpse (opponent's max hand size -1)
4 Albino Serpent (opponent's max hand size -2)
4 Blood Crow (revamped Priest of Gix)
4 Mogouls (2/2 swampwalk)
4 Gidah (3/3 without much of a drawback)
2 Tombstone Guard (3/3)

Artifact creatures

4 Cyborg Replicant (2/2 that gets by pro-black creatures)

Black spells

4 Dark Ritual
2 Vengence (removal)
4 Prejudicial Extermination (removal)

Land

20 Swamp

4 Zaire's Touch (vs black, weenie, or artifact decks)
2 Full Color Nightmare (vs rainbow decks)
4 Null Soldier (vs tricky decks)
1 Vengeance
4 Crystal of Normalcy

Both Nightfall Hag and Prejudicial Extermination require you to discard your
hand. Usually suicide black doesn't have much in hand anyway so its not much
drawback after you drop your hand into play.

There's not any good creature enhancers in the set so I ran extra creatures
instead of trash like Shade Skin.

I didn't include Corrosive Rats. Your other creatures are likely to knock
out your opponent's hand which will let him automatically counter this at no
penalty.

I considered Unworthy Sacrifice as removal. If it wasn't an instant, I'd
probably have used it. But giving your opponent instant speed removal for
one colorless mana doesn't seem like a good idea. What good does removing a
potential blocker do if it only lets your opponent remove the attacker? I'd
rather take the chance my opponent won't block. Its not often I look at a
card and think to myself "Gee, if only this card were a sorcery instead of
an instant".

There's also not much disruption in black or artifact and none of it is
cheap/effective enough to run in suicide black except Crystal of Normalcy. 
Ritual then "Meddling Mage for every rare in your deck" is a strong first
play. Usually "played" means "cast" so I don't know if it applies to
terra-formed cards when played as land. If it does, I'd seriously consider
maindecking it.

Turn 1
Swamp cast Dark Ritual then Blood Crow, Blood Crow, Albino Serpent,
Nightfall Hag. End of turn discard the rest of your hand (1 card) because of
the Hag.

Opponent's turn 1
Draw. Lay terraformed land. Done and discard 2 cards because of the Albino
Serpent.

You might not get that good of a draw every time but I think the opponent's
draw might be typical in the format.

Lonnie "ATW" Usery
reindeercards@hotmail.com