Subject: Rath Constructed -- Suicide Black
Date: 16 Jun 1998 06:12:06 GMT
From: aexia@u.washington.edu (Micheal Keane)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

This is the black deck I've been dinking around with. Naturally, it's
geared towards a quick kill with Hatred, sort of. My playtesting found
culling of the weak to be generally a dead card. I'd rather have a
creature that can reliably beatdown on people with. So, the deck keeps
aiming for the 2nd shadow, 3rd turn ritual/hatred kill instead. It should
happen enough times. The rest of the deck is fairly fast weenie beatdown
with endless scream for other unpleasant surprises(substitute for unholy
strength). Edict for some amount of control and to get rid of blockers.
Are Foul Imp and Carnophage bad or good with the Hatred? hmmm. I'll have
to do more goldfish tests and see.

4 Dark Ritual
4 Hatred
4 Diabolic Edict
4 Endless Scream

4 Carnophage
4 Sarcomancy
4 Dauthi Horror
4 Dauthi Slayer
4 Foul Imp
4 Rats of Rath

20 Swamp

Sideboard:
3 Bottomless Pit
3 Perish
3 Dread of Night
3 Dark Banishing
3 Wall of Souls

There are other things I'd like to put in the sideboard. Megrim(with all
the discard crap in Exodus). And I need some way of beating Light of Day
because a 3rd turn kill isn't always going to happen and at some point,
I'll get locked down. I'm thinking of 3 Brush with Deaths. It's sort of DD
and lategame, it can be used every turn  with buyback to kill my
opponent(while simultaneously buying me extra time). What have other
people used to beat Light of Day in mono-black?

Necrologia was pretty good in earlier versions of the deck. Naturally,
they aren't very compatible with hatred. But it was a good way to refill
my hand. I think the Hatreds are better though.
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