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Apr 27, 2011 -- 3:39PM, Tich wrote:

Yes, but as I said in the thread, I'm not sure if this is the best place to discuss EDH too deeply. We have a lot of great EDH resources on this site and they do a good job of listing the EDH essentials.

Honestly though, building a black EDH deck isn't very difficult. The first thing you is fill the deck with pretty much every tutor you own. All those "bad" cards like Diabolic Tutor and Dimir Machinations are must haves because they can tutor/transmute for your essential cards like Cabal Coffers , Yawgmoth's Will , Necropotence . Even Shred Memory tutors for your Demonic Tutor . 99.99% of the time your goal is going to be to power out your Cabal Coffers and probably your Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (which also make cards like Expedition Map awesome) so that you can start throwing out your big spells.

From there, size matters. Use your Decree of Pain s, Promise of Power s, Dregs of Sorrow , etc. If you have any good Eldrazi, throw them in. If the card costs a billion mana and has a massive effect, throw it in (think Dark Depths ). Go big or go home. Mind you, you still have to think about the cards. Do not use Curse of the Cabal because it only affects one player. Do use Myojin of Night's Reach because it's freaking Godlike in the format. Look for big, over costed, over powered effects like these that affect everyone/each opponent. You'll also probably want a lot of colorless removal, like All is Dust , Oblivion Stone , Nevinyrral's Disk etc. Otherwise your deck will be very weak against artifacts and enchantments, which is a huge liability in EDH. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is another fine addition to help shore up this weakness. Like I said, most Eldrazi are good.

From there there's just some general things. Throw in all your good mass removal, like Damnation , Mutilate , Black Sun's Zenith , etc. Do not use cards like Massacre that won't be able to touch fatties. If anything, use Massacre Wurm to really screw over token decks, as they can be quite popular. Any planeswalker is good. Sorin Markov knocks away 30+ life instantly, Liliana Vess is more tutoring and her ult wins games, etc. Most draw is fantastic. Ancient Craving and Ambition's Cost are good. Syphon Mind is good. Skeletal Scrying is good. I could go on but you get the idea, draw is draw.

That about sums it up. Field every tutor you possibly can, all your good mass removal, a good deal of draw, and every big, dumb, Timmy card that you own. Not the 6 mana spells, the 8-15 mana spells. I've said it before but I'll say it again, don't even bother playing Black if you're not going to use Cabal Coffers . It's the only reason mono black is even viable.

Still, I'm starting to think that it would be a good idea to expand on the EDH section maybe. It is by the most popular multiplayer format after all. I might just start writing something up.

Yes you should and you are the god father of black.