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Heartless Burn Black 60 cards, 4 sideboard 24 {Swamp} 24 lands 4 {Tormented Soul} 4 {Gravecrawler} 4 {Blood Artist} 4 {Vampire Nighthawk} 2 {nefarox, overlord of grixis} - replaced { desecration demon} (removed {Falkenrath noble} felt slow) 18 creatures 4 {Disentomb} - added for shanigans 3 {Undying Evil} -1 3 {Heartless Summoning} -1 4 {Tragic slip} - replaced {murder} 4 {altar's reap} - replaced {cremate} 18 other spells 4 {mutilate}: answer to aggro decks. Main board? Sideboard {desecration demon}: opponent sacing/threat {griselbrand}: alt win con possible Notes: Update: still holding to the {heartless summoning} wipe for damage and life gain, but added some, better, card draw and back up plan. Also cheaper creature removal. Anymore thoughts? And thank you for all the help guys!

I like the idea. Maybe run  {Disentomb} an  {Tragic Slip}

How bout you just run alters reap instead if you wanna go this rout?.... Your guys don't really benefit from costing 2 colorless less that much...... Just sac grave crawler with alters reap, they lose life, you gain life and card advantage.... Win win

Why  {Cremate}? There are other better cards if your using it to draw a card

Quote from: Almosteric on November 29, 2012, 10:01:41 PM
I like the idea. Maybe run  {Disentomb} an  {Tragic Slip}

{tragic slip} is a must, totally missed that. Ill try {disentomb} I don't see any reason not too.
I picked {cremate} because I felt I needed a way to draw cards. What better cards are you thinking of? I've been out of magic for about a year so I'm not sure what's worth using and what's not.

Quote from: Redwings1939 on November 30, 2012, 01:08:00 AM
How bout you just run alters reap instead if you wanna go this rout?.... Your guys don't really benefit from costing 2 colorless less that much...... Just sac grave crawler with alters reap, they lose life, you gain life and card advantage.... Win win

I'm using {heartless summoning} for the    -1/-1. I want to be able to pay 2 mana to wipe my board and do the damage. But I do like {altar's reap} for card advantage, good call.

{Griselbrand} as an alt win con maybe. He can come out two turns earlier, -1/-1 doesn't hurt him all that bad, and he can refill yor hand for free since you'll have {blood artist}s out.

There's also {Nefarox, overlord of grixis} if youre on a budget. While not as effective as GrizzlyBeard, he has exalted so the -1/-1 cancels out, and his ability is great with {blood artist}.

Quote from: Mikefrompluto on November 30, 2012, 12:20:58 PM
There's also {Nefarox, overlord of grixis} if youre on a budget. While not as effective as GrizzlyBeard, he has exalted so the -1/-1 cancels out, and his ability is great with {blood artist}.

I like the {nefarox, overlord of grixis} not sure about {Grisselbrand} yet.
Made some changes that were suggested but still have no idea for sideboard options, 15 lands maybe? Just so I look like I'm being good and switching out cards

Mutilate is amazing board wipe with mono black decks.....even kills  industructable creatures , and all the deaths stack with blood artist... With 2 blood artists out and they have 3 creatures ... 20 point swing with 1 card. You gain 10 they lose 10

I also like  {Butcher Ghoul} over  {Tormented Soul}, seems to work more with the theme.

I made a version yesterday. I'll post it for ya.

Quote from: Almosteric on November 30, 2012, 04:07:26 PM
I also like  {Butcher Ghoul} over  {Tormented Soul}, seems to work more with the theme.

{butcher ghoul} was in my original design, along with some other zombies but I decided not to go that route. Using undying in this deck feels clunky, atleast to me. I've got {undying evil} only for {blood artist} in case I need to continue pinging my opponent or for saving a creature that is just ripping up the field. {mutilate} seems viable though....