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I tried not to wander too far from the spirit of the deck, but here's my take:

Stayin Alive (9)
Krosan Cloudscraper
Krosan Colossus
Akroma, Angel of Fury
Maelstrom Djinn
Scornful Egotist...

Right. Isn't the goal to be making land drops every turn for at least the first 6 turns or so? I suppose it depends on the other decks in your playgroup. I always found that I never had much action...

I'm a fan of both Wayfarer's Bauble and Solemn Simulacrum as they are both ways for mono black to accelerate lands into play. Also, Everflowing Chalice might be better than Worn Powerstone since it...

Azami, Lady of Scrolls finally made the chopping block for me. I don't feel that the edge cases she covers are worth her taking up a useless slot in the deck. Angel recurs Sylvan Safekeeper to...

Xiahou Dun as a general really begins to shine when you get your mana online. You can cast him, sac him to return something (usually a tutor), and instead of putting him in the GY move him back to...

I've been having more success running Frantic Search to get combo pieces out of my hand, since the untap part essentially makes it free to cast. I didn't mean to imply that Snapcaster Mage was being...

Among other changes, I've cut:

Oxidize
Ancient Grudge
Pithing Needle
Phyrexian Revoker
Snuff Out

These are cards that I never ever tutored for and felt unnecessary. Aside from the hate I...

One other thing that I've noticed is that this list has a difficult time casting either Misdirection or Force of Will as protection due to a lack of blue cards. I'm trying out Cyclonic Rift, Simic...

If you are adding more GY support, Entomb would be good. Also maybe Anger instead of Lightning Greaves.

EDIT: Also Nostalgic Dreams could be a good recursion outlet that doubles as a discard...

What situations do you find yourself in where Yawgmoth's Will is good? Its cost is somewhat prohibitive, and you can't combo the turn you play it. Unless I'm missing something obvious, I think that...

The issue with simply adding more IMS is that the deck also needs a black source to be able to cast the wincon.... so you need both an IMS AND a black source in your hand. Currently the count stands...

Combo 11
4x Living Wish
4x Undercity Informer
3x Balustrade Spy

Mana Fix 8
4x Manamorphose
4x Wild Cantor

Mana 32

I took the deck out for spin the other day, and the night was definitely a success. I ended up in a pod staring down a Stonebrow, Krosan Hero deck, a Thraximundar deck, and an unsleeved (guy is...

Right, I meant replace either Exhume, Animate Dead, or Dance of the Dead with Vengeance. Unless for some reason you intend to pass the turn after reanimating Grisel, you get an extra draw 7 via haste...

Is Worn Powerstone better than Coalition Relic in your current list? The ability to play Relic into a tutor the same turn has occasionally been relevant for me. Then again I've never really had the...

I want to be very careful that none of the other players feel slighted by my effects in order to keep the focus of attention off of myself. The best way that I've found to do that is to give these...

Sometimes I really don't understand the mindset of the Commander group at my LGS (local game store). Creating a custom banned list of cards is fine, developing a special point-system to discourage...

Have you considered running Research // Development and moving the kill to the SB? It adds another step to the combo, but it cuts the MD wincon slots down to a single card.

In this sense, 'perfect score' refers to the feeling that you've built the optimal decklist. I've never met someone that ran more than 60 cards because they felt it was 'optimal'. It has always been...

Running 61 cards is like leaving some of the bubbles blank on a multiple-choice standardized test when you are penalized 1/4 of a point for a wrong answer. You are avoiding potentially losing points...

'Blazing Shoal + expensive red card' seems worse to me than Berserk + Invigorate, but if you want to try and make it work you need to max out the number of Progenitus that you are running before...

Are you looking for another card advantage source to fill the role of Necropotence? I've had success with Ambition's Cost and Ancient Craving in my Xiahou Dun list. Instead of throwing another swamp...

I'd recommend fitting an Infernal Darkness into your list somewhere (maybe in place of Mind Slaver?). It can buy you the time needed for a few General kills, particularly if you drop it immediately...

Splashing colors doesn't necessarily slow the deck down as long as we don't dilute the density of threats and pump spells. The important goal of this all-in strategy is to be able to reliably get an...