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I would swap the Dark Favor s for Inkmoth Nexus , it's pricey but the card WORKS, its an essential part of any infect deck.

Duress isn't standard legal

But he raises a good point, the 3 extra lands are important and you want more creatures in all honesty.

Hand of the Praetors can be effective for when you are popping out a few cheap critters with Infect (also stacks nicely with Phyrexian Metamorph to give them lots of counters without even needing to attack) 

I completely forgot about my inkmoths, and I'll definitely throw in Necropedes. However many I can find in my cards.

+2 Hand of the Praetors
+4 Inkmoth Nexus
-3 Dark Favor (Though I really like its +3 for infect)
+1 Phyrexian Metamorph
+2 or 3 Necropede
-2 Plague Stingers (I only have 2 anyways)
-4 Grim Affliction . I don't know what else I should take out to make room for my inkmoths

May 18, 2012 -- 12:03AM, Cogminded wrote:

In mono black, either the Blazing Shoal

The alternate cost of Blazing Shoal requires you to remove a card from your hand ( Progenitus and DragonStorm were common targets). 
I'm not sure mono- offers the same level of library manipulation as mono- (you lose Muddle The Mixture , Peer Through Depths , Ponder , Preordain , etc, etc) which means you'd be sacrificing reliability (as it becomes much harder to connect after the first 3 turns). As a whole, I wouldn't try Mono- Blazing Shoal

But, if you're committed to it, you'd have to run it alongside things like Demonic Tutor , Vampiric Tutor , Gitaxian Probe and Sign In Blood (and maybe Street Wraith too) to help keep the deck fast enough.

20 x Swamp
4 x Inkmoth Nexus

4 x Phyrexian Crusader
4 x Plague Stinger
2 x Whispering Specter
2 x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

4 x Virulent Wound
4 x Mutagenic Growth
3 x Lashwrithe
3 x Tezzeret's Gambit
2 x Postmortem Lunge
4 x Victim of Night
2 x Dismember
2 x Livewire Lash


I think I have myself a deck with nice tempo and aggressive unexpected damage to stun if not defeat my opponents. Kudos to the Mutagenic Growth tip, it's ridiculously good guerilla damage and keeps a fast tempo that I need.

Now as far as sideboard goes.

3 x Nihil Spellbomb 
3 x Gruesome Encore
2 x Black Sun's Zenith
2 x Appetite for Brains


This is all I have so far, an answer for graveyard players, an answer for Solar Flare, and a small answer to Wolf Run/ any ramp or late game variant. Though it's only 2.