Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 355! We are your weekly source for community, strategy, and technology hosted each and every week on Commandercast.com! On this  week’s episode Mark and Adam are joined by Phil as they continue their Mono-Colored Shells cycle. This week the guys go over one of the few colors that actually works really well by itself, Black. But first a quick community segment were they go over War of the Spark Spoiler cards.

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CommanderCast Episode 355

Posted: April 8, 2019

Intros:

GUEST: Phil

Adam

Mark

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Community

Upcoming Vorthos orgasm with War of the Spark.  How much do EDH players care?

Strategy

Building the “shell” for a mono-Black deck

Draw:

1. A) “Ladyfingers Suite”

• Sign in Blood
• Night’s Whisper
• Read the Bones
• NOT Succumb to Temptation, Dark Bargain, Bitter Revelation, Ambition’s Cost, Ancient Craving, etc

1. B) Other Spells

• Wretched Confluence

• Decree of Pain (see top boardwipes)
• Promise of Power (sorry Adam)
• Damnable Pact
• Necrologia

1. C) Enchantments

• NECROPOTENCE
• Phyrexian Arena

1. D) Creature-Based

• TWILIGHT PROPHET
• Graveborn Muse

• Bloodgift Demon
• Harvester of Souls
• Midnight Reaper
• Grim Haruspex
• Demonlord Belzenlok (in the right deck)

Ramp

1. E) Land Ramp

• Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Heavy swampage
• Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Crypt of Agadeem (in the right build)
• Deserted Temple
• Thespian’s Stage and Vesuva
• A case for Cabal Stronghold
• Myriad Landscape

1. F) Land-Based Ramp

• CRYPT GHAST
• SWORD OF FEAST AND FAMINE
• Nirkana Revenant
• Wayfarer’s Bauble
• Burnished Hart
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Sword of the Animist
• Caged Sun
• Gauntlet of Power
• Extraplanar Lens (and its risks)  
• Bubbling Muck?
• Liliana of the Dark Realms (if you can protect her)

1. G) Everything Else

• Rocks (and how many to use)
• Corner case – Waste Not
• High end cards exist that go well too – Candelabra of Tawnos, Mishra’s Workshop, Metalworker

1. H) Recursion

• YAWGMOTH’S WILL, Magus of the Will
• Geth, Lord of the Vault; Chainer, Dementia Master, Demon of Dark Schemes
• Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed, Shrouded Lore, Ill-Gotten Gains
• Reanimate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, Sheoldred, Whispering One
• Victimize, Dread Return
• Living Death, Rise of the Dark Realms
• Phyrexian Reclamation

Spot Removal

1. I) Instants

• Hero’s Downfall
• Go for the Throat
• Tragic Slip
• Victim of Night
• Curtains’ Call
• Murder (and why it is just fine)
• Silence the Believers

1. J) Sorceries

• Sever the Bloodline
• Ashes to Ashes (Drew Tucker or Doug Keith art?)

1. K) Creatures

• Ravenous Chupacabra (and not Nekrataal – sorry Mark!)
• Shriekmaw
• Noxious Gearhulk
• Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• either Ulamog

1. L) Other

• Unstable Obelisk
• 7 Drops – Scour from Existence, Karn Liberated, Spine of Ish Sah, Meteor Golem

1. M) Utility Lands

• Land Destruction – Strip Mine, Wasteland, Tectonic Edge, Dust Bowl
• Buried Ruin
• Inventor’s Fair
• Bojuka Bog
• Thawing Glaciers
• NO cycle lands
• To fetch or not to fetch?
• Snow-Covered Swamps
• Phyrexian Tower

1. N) Wraths

• Toxic Deluge
• Damnation
• Decree of Pain
• Mutilate
• All is Dust
• Oblivion Stone
• Living Death
• Life’s Finale
• Mindslicer
• TORMENT OF HAILFIRE

1. O) Tutors (that you don’t hear enough about)

• Beseech the Queen
• Praetor’s Grasp
• Diabolic Intent
• Increasing Ambition
• Demonic tutor
• Vampiric tutor

1. P)  Good Card is Good – a sample card from all the other things Black does well

• Grave Titan
• Myojin of Night’s Reach
• Sadistic Sacrament
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Tainted Strike
• Leyline of the Void
• Army of the Damned
• Imp’s Mischief

Technology

Our favorite corner case cards in mono-Black.  These don’t go in every shell, but still deserve consideration nonetheless.

Phil

• Worst Fears
• Painful Quandary
• Infernal Darkness

Adam –

• Gate to Phyrexia
• Tortured Existence
• Infernal Genesis

Mark –

• Strands of Night
• Season of the Witch
• Oversold Cemetery

Honorable Mentions:

• Kill Switch
• Warping Wail
• Price of Fame

Favorite Bad Card:

• Scandalmonger

Outtro/Contacts:

GUEST: Phil – in the comments, as Beltfed Weapon

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Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com

Adam – (at)squire9999 // (at)thetrinisphere

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