While we get on the ride with the three-color decks supported by the Streets of New Capenna set, we should also check on what cards from the recent set have become a good upgrade for the current Mono Colored deck builds in the Standard format and maybe for some older ones like Pioneer.

For today’s Mono Deck discussion, we take a look at the Mono-Black Aggro list and see what new cards were included.

Here below is the updated Mono-Black Aggro decklist:

Creatures
2 Blade of the Oni
3 Bloodvial Purveyor
3 Biting Palm Ninja
3 Graveyard Trespasser
4 Shakedown Heavy
4 Skyclave Shade
4 Tenacious Underdog
1 Tainted Adversary

2 Bloodchief’s Thirst
3 Infernal Grasp
2 Reckoner Bankbuster
1 Hagra Mauling

4 Okiba Reckoner Raid
1 Life of Toshiro Umezawa

Lands (23)
4 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
2 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
17 Swamp

The Streets of New Capenna cards added are Shakedown Heavy, and Tenacious Underdog which are very relevant creatures in the new lineup. The 3-drop Heavy gives a slight disadvantage of a card draw in exchange for combat damage, but that means more gas to you as you continue to curve up to the fourth and fifth turn. Tenacious Underdog can be a late-game attacker with its recursion Blitz ability with only the mana and life for the cost.

Okiba Reckoner Raid is a delayed one-drop but can deal life loss to opponents as its lore counters tick. The utility three-drops consist of the trespassers and Biting Palm Ninjas. The former deals with relevant graveyard recurring cards and the latter with discarding the best card from the opponent and knowing their next moves.

I have included two copies of Reckoner Bankbuster with the two options: card draw and early huge attacker. Most of the creatures in the lineup can crew it for early attack and in the late game, extra mana can be used to activate its card draw.

I have yet to check on its performance on the MTG Online and Magic Arena tournaments and if ever you guys have started a grind with this deck, feel free to share in the comment box your insights and strategy to certain matchups and the best cards to include or update.

That is a wrap for now on this Standard deck tech, until the next blog post.