New EDH

[Thorn]

I'm trying to get into EDH and I was wondering about the plausibility of a "Group Hate" deck. Unlike Group Hug, Group Hate would use cards like {Blood Tithe} and {Polluted Bomds} along with {No Mercy}.
1. Is this possible?
2. What are some other "Group Hate" cards?
3. Who should be the General?

[Thorn]

Help please?

[Greg54js]

{syphon flesh} not sure who to use as a commander. What are the colors of the deck?

[Gorzo]

It is absolutely possible, but expect to be a huge target for everyone - make sure you load yourself up with a massive, solid defense.

As for mono black generals that serve this purpose, {Sheoldred, Whispering One} comes to mind. Let me have a quick browse for other options.

[Gorzo]

{Tsabo Tavok} or {Kaervek the Merciless} would be devastating, and give you access to red also, for spells like {Breath of Malfegor}, {Terminate}, red damage bombs like {Blasphemous Act} and {Chain Reaction}, direct damage spells like {Red Sun's Zenith}, and crazy things like {Worldfire}.

{Ashling, the Extinguisher}, {Lim-Dul the Necromancer}, {Ob Nixilis, The Fallen}, and {Visara the Dreadful} are decent mono black commanders for this style as well.

[Thorn]

Wow thanks!
I like this idea a lot.
Would {Thunder Dragon} be ok?


Well let me break down my EDH story. Got the Devour For Power precon and took it apart. Tried to get back into EDH with a {Vorosh, the Hunter} deck. That did not work so I tried a {Gisela, Blade of Goldnight} deck and quickly found out how bad aggro is in EDH. So now I want to make a legit deck and while browsing cards I came across {Teysa} (Something or another) and she seemed pretty cool so I'm trying to throw something together around her but I like the ideas you gave me.

[Fishsticks123]

I would suggest not doing this. I tried it once and people really hated me and targeted me to kill me faster and didn't want to play against me.

[Thorn]

I would suggest not doing this. I tried it once and people really hated me and targeted me to kill me faster and didn't want to play against me.

So who was your general?

[Gorzo]

Added some mono-black decent options to my above post. And yeah, like Fish days, you will get a lot of hate, so make sure you have a super solid defense. {Wall of Bone} and {Reassembling Skeleton}, ahoy!

[Thorn]

I really like {Kearvek, the Merciless}

So key cards are {Blightning}, {Terminate}, {Breath of Malfegor}, {No Mercy}, {Polluted Bonds}, {Blasphemous Act}, {Worldfire},
{Slagstorm}, {Thunder Dragon}, {Exquisite Blood}, {Sanguine Bonds}(lol lets just chuck the insta-win in here), {Kulrath Knight} just cause he is awesome. Then I would need {Wall of Fire}, {Wall of Bone}, {Reassembling Skeleton}, {Wall of Bones}
As for killspells I know of {Murder} {Geth's Verdict}, {Syphon Flesh}(great card for my deck), {Smother}, {Go for the Throat}, {Doomblade}, {Dismember}, {Tragic Slip}

Then to take advantage of all of these dead crearures I would use {Bonehoard}

Maybe {Undying Evil} to keep my walls alive?
Also {Curse of Death's Hold} and {Blood Reckoning} help me.
And I can board wipe* with {Mutilate}.
*hopefully

Any other good cards you might know are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Thorn

[Gorzo]

{Damnation}, {Black Sun's Zenith}, {Life's Finale}, and other black board wipes are good to have. {Profane Command} is fun, too.

Your deck may also benefit greatly from {Reverberate}/{Increasing Vengeance}/{Dual Casting} type effects. {Molten Psyche} actually works as a kill spell when copied enough, as an alternate win condition. A group hug deck killed me with it a few weeks ago lol