A good black deck - internediate

>Do you remember me?
>I asked for advice from thee
>Not-that-guy i tried to be
>After getting rekt - i declare: REEEEEEEE
Give me some advice on making a good black deck.
(I have the nixilis one from the duel deck and i'm getting rekt and my pals laugh at me that it's utter shite)

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Intermediate*

Creatures: 16
4 Carnophage
4 Black Knight
4 Dauthi Slayer
4 Oona's Prowler

Spells: 18
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Blight
4 Terror
2 Sign in Blood

Others: 6
2 Grafted Wargear
4 Bonesplitter

Lands: 20
20 Swamp

are you

are you playing a commander deck against normal decks?

ok, duel deck, i can't read

brb killing self

3 of them have custom decks made for standard (one of them mocked me for buying outdated cards) and one has a planeswalker deck (the chandra one).
If the nixilis deck from "nissa vs ob nixilis" is a commander deck, then yes.

>making a good black deck.
>good black deck.
>black deck.

If you keep calling it like that, anyone will fucking laugh at you, casual shitter. What format? What budget? What play style? What's your meta?

I'm a huge newb at this, so pls no-bully, but i do not know what is a meta.

>Format: i'd say modern, but the people i know play standard
>Budget: translating from yuropoor currency it's 50 dollarydoos
>Playstyle: dunno; i always have too much/too little lands to do anything

Btw the only difference in formats that i know is that standard doesn't let me play old cards in tournaments.

It seems that my thread is dying.
I thought of 8 rack as a good one

4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
2 Etched Champion
2 Dark Confidant

4 Disciple of the Vault
4 Mox Opal
4 Thoughtseize
4 Cranial Plating

4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Inkmoth Nexus
5 Swamp

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Here's what I use as a budget mono-black deck, less than $20 USD and can win a surprising amount of games. However, it is modern so your friends may not like that it uses a different pool of cards from their decks

You start with 4 of these

X4 pulse tracker
X4 gifted aether born
X4 gatekeeper of Malakir
X4 bloodline keeper
X4 vampire nighthawk

X4 doom blade
X4 murder
X4 sign in blood
X4 distress
X4 (anything you want)

X20 swamp

Super simple aggressive black deck. Plenty of killspells, and tough creatures. Came up with it off of the tip of my head. Super well rounded. I've got a super cheap green black deck I like to use against newer players. I'll post that list in a few.

X4 slitherhead
X4 lotleth troll
X4 dregs mangler
X4 corpsejack menace
X4 veilborn ghoul
X2 scavenging ooze

X4 ghoulcaller's chant
X4 sign in blood
X4 cultivate
X4 purify
X2 dismember

X12 swamp
X8 forest

The main win con is lotleth troll. You can get him stacked quick by discarding the ghouls or even scavenging dead monsters onto it. Corpse jack can be a bomb on its own if your trolls keep dying. Perfect for scavenging onto.

Never discard a scavenging ooze to the troll. They exile things out of your opponents graveyards to gain you life and slowly grow into a threat if left unchecked.

I love playing this deck against newer players and casual players. There's so many "outs" that they often have a hard time keeping all the threats in check, but it's not impossible for them to beat.

Never sign in blood your opponent unless they'll die. New players think the life loss isn't worth the card draw. IT IS. If you play it just to burn your opponent, they can draw their win con which you may not have removal for. The sign in blood would have been put to way better use on yourself because you could have drawn into a removal spell.

It's modern legal.

4x Dark Ritual
4x Hypnotic Specter
4x The Rack
4x Hymn to Tourach
4x Duress
2x Geth's Verdict
4x Sign in Blood
3x Raven's Crime
2x Shrieking Affliction
4x Necrogen Mists
4x Dismember
21x swamps

>no smallpox instead of Necrogen

It's shit

Eldrazi + Butcher of Malakir synergy.
2 or 3 Butchers
4 Raise Dead
4 Gravedigger
4 Bone Splinters
4 Murder / Heros downfall

4 Blighted Fen
4 of that land that makes Eldrazi tokens
90 swamps
Play whatever you want after that, Black is fun as fuck.

I wonder when pauper user is going to show up.
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You can drop the oubliettes for something else, its not critical to the deck.

Standard is the last few sets
Modern is everything back to 8th, with most of the fun stuff banned
Legacy is everything, with most of the broken stuff banned
Vintage is everything with broken stuff restricted
Pauper is everything common with the storm cards all banned

It would be liliana I'd it weren't meant to be budget. Just swap some of the kill spells.

and end with 4 of these

Nixilis does suck outside of Commander decks that do the Exalted thing. Virtually useless.

What are your friends playing? just build decks to beat them... they play lots of creatures? Play creature hate, lots of Sacrifice, destroy, and flyers.
They play burn? Run massive creatures and revival. Or Extort is fun in casual
Control? Black has a tough time with that but cheap token spamming is good. Or some sort of alt win con. Like that enchantment that kills players at 13 life.

It's actually rather terrifying in its simplicity.

>Advice
Don't skimp out on removal. Even if you're going for a high-speed aggro build, you still need a fair bit of removal. This is why some of the most successful decks in any format are aggro/midrange Jund and Abzan lists that run efficient creatures backed by by strong removal packages.

Is it possible to play mono black storm? Could probably throw something together cheaply too, if this is just something casual.

suicide black, man