This week’s deck feature is a Magic: the Gathering Standard take of one of Magic’s favorite decks: Mono Black. It was created by Jim Stafford and got 7th at State Championships 2008 in Wyoming. The list uses the powerful black creatures in Standard like Ashenmoor Gouger and Demigod of Revenge, and spot removals like Unmake and Nameless Inversion. It also uses Dusk Urchins, which served both as a beater and card drawer source.

What got me interested are the four copies of Fleshbag Marauder. I think its for Chameleon Colossus which is the bane of this deck. The decklist below:

Maindeck
4 Ashenmoor Gouger
4 Demigod of Revenge
4 Dusk Urchins
4 Fleshbag Marauder
4 Viscera Dragger

2 Infest
2 Loxodon Warhammer
4 Nameless Inversion
2 Profane Command
4 Thoughtseize
3 Unmake

23 Swamp

Sideboard
4 Bottle Gnomes
2 Corrupt
2 Infest
4 Rain of Tears
2 Raven’s Crime
1 Unmake

*This is a repost of the post at Death-mark.blogspot.com dated January 18, 2009.