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Subject: Kill anything
So you have a black "kill-creature" deck and want to make it eviler eh? Well I know just the thing to kick the pants off anyone who wants to stand in your way.

First of all, never underestimate the amount of help a simple Diabolic Edict (1B, Target player sacrifices a creature.) or Death Stroke (BB, Destroy target tapped creature.) can be. Remember, go cheap, and go fast. You want to kill things with the quickness.

Ok, with that out of the way, lets talk kill cards. How many times have you had your Hand of Death, and havn't been able to use it because you want to kill a black creature? I can't count the times I needed that creature to be any other color but black. I have a simple solution for that. I like to call them Ersatz Gnomes. They are an Artifact Creature (1/1) with a cost of 3. Why are they so good? If you tap them you can either make a target spell colorless, or a target permanent colorless. This has unlimited possibilities. You can make your spell colorless, now no protection from black spell can save them... Or you can go for the subtle approach and just make the creature colorless. They don't have protection from colorless. This is a must have for any kill creature deck.

Now onto how to kill things faster. Have you ever heard of Hecatomb (1BB, When Hecatomb comes into play, bury four creatures or bury hecatomb... Tap a swamp, deal one damage to target creature or player.)? or Breeding Pit (3B, During your upkeep pay to or bury Breeding Pit.... At the end of your turn, put a thrull token into play. Treat this token as a 0/1 black creature.)? Think hard kiddies. Wait four turns with Hecatomb out, and you have one of the best kill cards made. It is like Pestilence with no bad effects, like the death of you and your creatures. Feel free to tap away and waste your opponent until he begs for his mommy.

But with all these creatures in the graveyard, and all your kill cards sitting there wastefully the deck hides one more evil combo. Sadistic Glee (B, Enchantment,  Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted Creature) can put all those dead creatures to work. Just stick it on a shadow creature and watch the tears from your friend flow. Anything else you can find which steals creatures from graveyards and puts them on your side can also be helpful. Try "Ashen Powder." It takes target creature from an opponent's graveyards, and puts it into play under your control. There is plenty to choose from!

And finally, maybe one of the most important parts of the deck: Getting rid of your graveyard. I think PainBringer( 2BB, 1/1, Tap: Remove any number of cards in your graveyard from the game: Target creature gets -X/-X until the end of turn, where X is the number or cards removed in this way.) should do the trick. Well, happy killing. Tell em' Ed sent ya.


-The (Almighty) Ed Man-