Suicide Black in the new Type II

 

If there is one deck that I am determined to revive it is suicide black.  I have designed version after version, scoured the net and spent countless tournaments (well, just one) playing it.  Most say it is dead for the time being and that I should find some other way to consume this boring summer vacation.  Well I say I don’t give a rat’s ass what they think, I’m going to build my lame ass black deck and I’m going to smash their face in to the ground with it. 

Here’s a version I found at mtgplanet.com:

4 maggot carrier

4 blood pet

4 foul imp

4 phyrexian scuta

4 chimeric idol

 

4 duress

4 unmask

4 dark ritual

4 unholy strength

4 snuff-out

 

20 swamps

One thing bothered me in particular with this deck’s design: the unmasks.  Granted, they are a very good discard spell that can help you a lot in early turns against counterspells, but in a deck where the card disadvantage is already so terrible, the discard a card in the casting cost can only make things worse.

This one I found at I-gaming.com

2 phyrexian scuta

1 ascendant evincar

2 delraich

1 agent of shauku

2 rathi intimidator

1 rathi fiend

4 cateran persuader

2 cateran brute

2 molting harpy

2 rampant crawler

 

1 persecute

4 dark ritual

2 unholy strength

2 dark triumph

4 tangle wire

2 snuff-out

4 duress

 

2 rishidan port

18 swamps

 

My first thought about this deck was that it was built on a budget, but after looking it over a second time, I saw the ports and scutas and realized that that wasn’t the case.  It seems more to be a teched out version with a mercenary chain to help out with the card disadvantage that was usually the downfall of these types of decks.  I still deem the deck crappy even though it finished in the top 8 of whatever tournament it came from

This deck I found at starcity.com

4 phyrexian battle flies

4 foul imp

3 agent of shauku

3 spineless thug

4 phyrexian scuta

4 chimeric idol

 

4 duress

4 tangle wire

4 dark ritual

4 snuff-out

4 unholy strength

 

3 rishidan port

19 swamps

 

This is by far my favorite of the three decks.  It seems to have been tested quite a bit as his article describes.  It features the tangle wires, which I feel are a very important tool in the late-early to mid-game to force a couple more attacks in.  It’s just a shame that drain life isn’t still around, and I refuse to splash white because that would only cause the deck to lose focus.  The one thing that I don’t like about the deck though would have to be the lack of maggot carriers, which I and many others feel is black’s best one-drop since carnophage.  Without further ado, here is my decklist

Suicide black v21.4

4 maggot carrier

4 phyrexian battle flies

4 foul imp

4 chimeric idol

4 phyrexian scuta

 

4 dark ritual

4 unholy strength

4 duress

4 tangle wire

3 snuff-out

 

21 swamps

As for you cheap skates out there, don’t think I forgot about you.  I used to be one of you, and I think it’s important that you realized that you can be competitive without rares.

4 maggot carrier

4 phyrexian battleflies

4 blood pet

4 foul imp

3 spineless thug

3 agent of shauku

 

4 dark ritual

4 unholy strength

4 sinister strength

4 duress

4 snuff-out

 

18 swamps

The mana curve on this bad boy doesn’t go above two, so you could probably squeeze out a couple of swamps and throw in some parallax dimentias or hate weavers or something.

I hope I proved that I am the best deck builder on the planet.  Because I am after all, the self proclaimed smartest person in the world.

                                                                                   

Dangerous Dan

Dangerous_dan_24@hotmail.com