Hello all,

long time reader here (and long time player too...).

I would like to show you my verion of mono B Pox. Due to budget issue I don't own (nor i can afford to buy) PW or old Legends cards. So please don't judge me to hard.

The idea is try to be competitive still having fun.


4 smallpox
4 duress
4 hymn to tourach
3 pox
3 dark ritual
4 sinkhole
1 bontu's last reckoning
4 chimeric idol
1 phyrexian totem
1 haunted plate mail
1 nether spirit
3 bloodghast
3 torment of scarabs

20 swamp
4 wasteland



Some explanations:

all my closers are immune to my sac effects and can be activated mostly without mana (the good old idol).

The mana base is very solid but still run 4 wasteland to support the disruption package in the main. On this I still maindeck 4 sinkhole to grab that basic or just to screw up more on non-basic. I saw a lot of decks run on 18/20 lands total. No fetchland, even if they give some pseudo haste to our ghasts, because i want the highest number possible of "real" lands due to the 3 big poxes.

The dark ritual are a necessary evil to cast the cc4 permanent.

And here are the two controversial cards:

- Plate mail : a "big" idol that coul be activated in response to nether or before to play a land to recur ghasts
- Torment of scarabs: a budget but still effective replacement for The Abyss that , otoh, hit not on only creature and help a lot our denial strategy.

The only cards i still miss is good old innocent blood (and in general a 1cc effective removal).

Speaking of sideboard I'm not very sold about nothing in particular, I don't have a defined meta.

So, those are my 2 cents, fell free to suggest!

Thanks

Bye