Mono Black Stax v2.0

[Mystical_Jackass]

Finally I was able to play a tournament with my list lol! Weeks of being sick and holidays sorta lagged me up, but I finally got around to it :laugh:

Here's my newest list I ran... yeah, I think I'm gonna stick with it for now, it was pretty rad

Land (26)
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Swamp
2 Maze of Ith
1 Tabernacle of Pendrilvale
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Factory

Spells (34)
4 Mox Diamond
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4 Chalice of the Void
4 Trinisphere
1 Nether Void (5th Trini)
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3 Braids, Cabal Minion
4 Smokestack
4 Crucible of Worlds
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1 The Abyss
4 Damnation
1 Bane of the Living
3 Phyrexian Totem
1 Sorin Markov

=====SIDEBOARD=====
4 Leyline the Void
3 Ravenous Trap
4 Dystopia
4 Engineered Plague
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Went 2-1-1 this tournament.

Match1: vs Mono Black - Hakon/Knights shizzle. Maze and factories made it last forever game 1, eventually couldn't keep up with incessessant recursion, even Damnation couldn't save me, he had a good start tho, double Hymn hurts >.< Steam rolled him game2, locked him out and Braids sealed it. Game3, excellent starting hand begginning game with leyline and getting crucible, trini, chalice on him... except for fact he had imp out and played a Lord of Undead... followed by second Lord of Undead Rofl, seriously? My factory couldn't save me from him army of 4/4's :p
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Match2: vs The Cure. Game 1, Trinisphere followed by smokestack next turn followed by a totem.. it ended fast, didn't really even get to barely see his deck lol. Game2, my god this game took forever.. I remember getting a descent start with Braids taking him down to zero permanents, till I only had City/swamp myself... I made a decision to sac Braids since the win was still somewhat far away. It turned into a long matchup just couldn't get the lockdown, my Maze keeping off his friggin' 8/8 Predator, I was at 7 he was at 3 life with only 5 mana sources and a mox & Sorin in my hand for like four turns lol, finally he false cures ftw. Game3 I had amazing start, trinisphere followed by Nether void and beat him down with factories
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Match3: vs GWr (dunno the name, Rhox.. goyf, reliquary, kitchet Sink lol etc. sorta Zoo like but without burn) Game1 he had great start with Goyf, Knight, then Rhox and beat my face, I could only kill goyf but he walk right over top Chalice & trini doh! Game2 he gets turn2 Gattok teeg on me, I'm like F'! lol, but fortunately lucky me topdecks Dystopia I boarded in, the funniest part ever was end.. it took quite a while but I ended up playing all 3 Totem, I got Nethervoid lock and lots of mana and paid 9 and swung with all 3 5/5 Totems ROFL. Game3, this is absolutely embarrassing but screwit, I'll admit I'm a total nubsicle lol; So I had the most amazing start, basically had the win... Turn1 Trini, Turn2 Braids, Turn3 Crucible.. he was down to 1 land & Sensei's, but what do I do? I swing next turn and boneheadedly play another Braids my second main, not even thinking; he's like "ok they both die" <smacks self> He gets some pretty heavy creatures out but thanks to Dystopia I recover and it turns into a long drawn out him Grip'ing my shizzle, him not getting past Maze and my sweepers... eventually I get Trini Nethervoid lock but we run outta time and go to turns. He did good job stalling doing w/e it took to sneak blocker in, Totem & Factory got him very close to death but ran outta turns, I believe he was at 9 and swung for 7 last turn, ah well gg's.
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Match4: vs elf weenie aggro. Game 1, he got llanower, perfect, and big creatures out fast, swung for 12 but I was holding off and followed up with Damnation, then followed with Braids and with chalice1/trini he couldn't do much. Game2 was similar but instead dropped a morph, got Trini/nethervoid/crucible lock this game (nice!), went ahead and infested elves with Bane at the opportune time and road that with factory ftw
2-1-1

I had a lot of fun using the list. Luckily I have some good friends helping hook me up with a few of the cards lol. I totally gotta say Maze is house in this deck. Tabernacle unfortunately only saw come out once that last round against Elves when I was already gonna win :\ But that woulda been perfect matchup to use it so its all g. I never really had problem ever getting black mana... there's always plenty of artifacts to play generally early on, and totem/diamonds/Urborg really fix the rest and save me a lotta life from Ancient tombs. Sorin only saw play once sadly, another game where it was already in the bag but deffinitely wanna try it out more to see what he's made of. Thanks

[Steino]

I’m just brainstorming here. For starters I feel you your SB has too much graveyard hate. Seven cards seems like too much. I would explore other options. I’ll find some and when I do I’ll run them past you. I like the main deck, but have you thought about adding any tutors? Tutors is one of black’s strong point. Some cards come to mind: Beseech the Queen and Grim Tutor (the life loss of this card makes it hard to use along side Ancient Tomb.)

[Mystical_Jackass]

That's deffinitely a descent idea to play around for even more consistency. Even tutoring for one of the lands doesn't seem like a bad play in some instances, to keep tempo. Diabolic seems like best well rounded, no drawback, option.

[Reverend Damaged]

Have you considered Lilliana Vess in the deck? Her tutoring multiple times is just amazing, and if she hits against control she's a house.


I just went 4-3 at Jupiter Games with a Mono-black Stax homebrew list. Yours is drastically different than mine in a lot of ways though. I'll have to get my list up here in the next day or so with a tournament report. We can share notes.