Mono Black has finally arrived! 🎉 First a small correction: with Mikaeus and Ballista you also need a sacrifice outlet to go infinite, since he makes Ballista a 1/1. My personal favorite from the list is probably Toshiro or Maralen. But what are your favorite Mono Black Commanders from the list? Or is there a commander that you really enjoy that didn't make my list?
I’m not going to lie I am loving this series!!! I’m also shocked at how quick you are uploading them. Major props to you. When I saw your first video on white I was looking at a new mono black and landed on Shirei but even now I’m so excited to watch. Super excited for your mono red and future posts.
I have an Iname deck that I love dearly, so happy to see it on the list! For interesting combos involving it, my favorite is Songs of the Damned. If you have 7 mana you can cast Iname, put however many spirits into your graveyard (my deck has 28, usually puts 25 or so in), then cast songs to gain mana equal to the creatures in your GY. With 25ish mana, you can then activate Eerie Soultender, a spirit that can pay 5 while in a GY to exile itself and return a creature to your hand, and return Myojin of Grim Betrayal to your hand which can then be cast for 8. Remove the indestructible counter that turn, and every spirit that was in your deck hits the battlefield. There's a whole bunch of shenanigans to do from there. If you had Syr Konrad out, that combo wins you the game by dealing like 50 damage to each opponent. You can use Kuro, Pitlord with Horobi, Death's Wail to then pay 1 life for each creature and wipe each opponent's board. Devouring Greed to sacrifice your board and kill someone. Sacrifice Kokusho and bring it back with Gravewaker's ability twice using the leftover Songs of the Damned mana for 30 life and 10 damage to everyone else, and some of the old kamigawa soulshift spirits can be used if something important gets killed (I love old kamigawa even if the cards can be of... questionable quality. They're very unique.) My deck isn't really optimized, I think I should add more of the discard spirits I ignored and maybe better tutors, but it's fun nonetheless. Honestly I really wish Iname Life Aspect and Death Aspect had partner, there are so many green cards that would be amazing here and Iname As One is just not the same. www.archidekt.com/decks/8330794/iname_death_aspect_combo_deck
great video man! One side note about Macar: gold differs from treasures due to it does not need to tap do generate mana, for situations you cannot tap permanents/artifacts and so on, it is way better than treasures!
Oh, "Noxious Field" in Maha could be cute - it can enchant a land into something that can tap, and ping the whole board for 1 damage, for an initial investment of 3 mana; it's a bit more controlled than 'Night of Souls' Betrayal'. 'Pestilence', and 'Withering Wisps' are also options so long as you can keep your own field alive.
Maha benefits a lot from having toxrill the corrosive as commander. On each end step toxrill will give a -1 -1 counter to each creature an opponent controls effectively board wiping each opponent every end step, each creature that dies this way you also make a little 1/1 snail which you can sacrifice to draw cards.
Massive fan of Toshiro conceptually, and that dread mairn synergy is really interesting, the only issue being that I can’t imagine the deck is fun to play against when your doing kill spell tribal, maybe one day but I’d warn anyone wanting to play it to discuss it with the table 1st since it can feel bad sometimes. Personally built my toshiro with a voltron package since you should be able to kill most blockers with kill spells and get some pretty lethal hits
I have an Endrek Sahr deck, and it's among my favorites for its unique play style. On the mentioned ashnods alter/phrexian. They will actually let you play your creatures for free and nearly do a bizarre black storm style gameplay. The big trick is to have all your creatures under 6 mana and some draw engine.
@theseppfuchs Thank you for the tips. I will let you know how it plays with the monument in it. Unfortunately, the heartless summoning will kill all the thralls. I'm also going to throw one tendrils of agony to see the interactions.
Ashnod is awesome. She curves out so consistently. Even without an expensive manabase. Your curve is like… 1-2-4-7. I once had a game with her where I was land screwed so incredibly hard but still managed to win thanks to the Powerstones. (I’m talking like, 2 lands in the top 25. It was awful.)
Patron of the Nezumi does NOT work like syr konrad. It says permanents, not permanent cards, meaning they have to be on the field first to trigger the patron's ability.
Endrek works well as a storm commander, using heartless summoning and death triggers so the thrulls die immediately for value to fuel an aristocrats engine for storm payoff like bitter ordeal simce tolens hit the grave
Heartless summonings is one of those cards that is so cool and so unique at the same time, that I really wish I could put more than 1 copy in my commander deck.
Didn't make the cut because I thought she was a little too well known. Also, there might be some personal feelings involved, but let's not talk about it :D.
Mono Black has finally arrived! 🎉
First a small correction: with Mikaeus and Ballista you also need a sacrifice outlet to go infinite, since he makes Ballista a 1/1.
My personal favorite from the list is probably Toshiro or Maralen.
But what are your favorite Mono Black Commanders from the list? Or is there a commander that you really enjoy that didn't make my list?
I’m not going to lie I am loving this series!!! I’m also shocked at how quick you are uploading them. Major props to you. When I saw your first video on white I was looking at a new mono black and landed on Shirei but even now I’m so excited to watch. Super excited for your mono red and future posts.
Thank you very much
I have an Iname deck that I love dearly, so happy to see it on the list! For interesting combos involving it, my favorite is Songs of the Damned. If you have 7 mana you can cast Iname, put however many spirits into your graveyard (my deck has 28, usually puts 25 or so in), then cast songs to gain mana equal to the creatures in your GY. With 25ish mana, you can then activate Eerie Soultender, a spirit that can pay 5 while in a GY to exile itself and return a creature to your hand, and return Myojin of Grim Betrayal to your hand which can then be cast for 8. Remove the indestructible counter that turn, and every spirit that was in your deck hits the battlefield. There's a whole bunch of shenanigans to do from there. If you had Syr Konrad out, that combo wins you the game by dealing like 50 damage to each opponent. You can use Kuro, Pitlord with Horobi, Death's Wail to then pay 1 life for each creature and wipe each opponent's board. Devouring Greed to sacrifice your board and kill someone. Sacrifice Kokusho and bring it back with Gravewaker's ability twice using the leftover Songs of the Damned mana for 30 life and 10 damage to everyone else, and some of the old kamigawa soulshift spirits can be used if something important gets killed (I love old kamigawa even if the cards can be of... questionable quality. They're very unique.) My deck isn't really optimized, I think I should add more of the discard spirits I ignored and maybe better tutors, but it's fun nonetheless. Honestly I really wish Iname Life Aspect and Death Aspect had partner, there are so many green cards that would be amazing here and Iname As One is just not the same.
www.archidekt.com/decks/8330794/iname_death_aspect_combo_deck
Thanks for the write-up. Your list looks awesome!
great video man! One side note about Macar: gold differs from treasures due to it does not need to tap do generate mana, for situations you cannot tap permanents/artifacts and so on, it is way better than treasures!
True! It also differs when cards like goldspan dragon are on the board! And thanks for the nice words :).
Getting back into Magic after 20 years and this was helpful for updating my old mono black deck into a commander deck.
Love to hear it! Welcome back :)
Oh, "Noxious Field" in Maha could be cute - it can enchant a land into something that can tap, and ping the whole board for 1 damage, for an initial investment of 3 mana; it's a bit more controlled than 'Night of Souls' Betrayal'. 'Pestilence', and 'Withering Wisps' are also options so long as you can keep your own field alive.
Oh nice. That sounds sick!
I built drana the last blood chief as my first mono black commander deck and I’m having so much fun with it
As a person who's been running Jaya Ballard task mage for 10 years, I'm stoked for mono R
Thats some serious dedication :D
Just love your vids for the creativity they give me
Thank you! That is exactly what I want to do :).
love this! had to subscribe so I don't miss the rest of the series
Love to hear it!
Nice video! I felt that Kaervek was left out though
At least he had a guest appearance :D. Or do you mean the other iteration?
This video made me watch/listen to the mono white takes ✌🏻
New video yaaiiiii! Love the content and you deserve more subscribers
Maha benefits a lot from having toxrill the corrosive as commander. On each end step toxrill will give a -1 -1 counter to each creature an opponent controls effectively board wiping each opponent every end step, each creature that dies this way you also make a little 1/1 snail which you can sacrifice to draw cards.
Toxrill is such a fun commander
A cool one that I built that Id like to throw in - Gollum, obsessed stalker
Good shit man. Love this series.
Endrek with Endless Scarabs and Phyrexian Altar is inf mana
It kills everyone with Warren Soul trader and Nadiers Nightblade. I've been diabolic tutoring the bunch up
@lokumo13 try it with Nadier's Nightblade and Warren Soultrader haha.
RE: Endrek Sahr, I'd consider Assault Suit, to prevent the sacrifice effect from going off at all
Very nice tech, I love it!
Massive fan of Toshiro conceptually, and that dread mairn synergy is really interesting, the only issue being that I can’t imagine the deck is fun to play against when your doing kill spell tribal, maybe one day but I’d warn anyone wanting to play it to discuss it with the table 1st since it can feel bad sometimes. Personally built my toshiro with a voltron package since you should be able to kill most blockers with kill spells and get some pretty lethal hits
Also a very nice idea! Being able to cast Hatred out of the graveyard is sick.
@@theseppfuchs hadn’t even considered hatred! Good shout
I have an Endrek Sahr deck, and it's among my favorites for its unique play style. On the mentioned ashnods alter/phrexian. They will actually let you play your creatures for free and nearly do a bizarre black storm style gameplay. The big trick is to have all your creatures under 6 mana and some draw engine.
Endrek Sahr seems like so much fun. I could see a storm deck work quite well with cost reduction cards like Bontu's Monument and Heartless Summoning.
@theseppfuchs Thank you for the tips. I will let you know how it plays with the monument in it. Unfortunately, the heartless summoning will kill all the thralls. I'm also going to throw one tendrils of agony to see the interactions.
Ashnod is awesome. She curves out so consistently. Even without an expensive manabase. Your curve is like… 1-2-4-7.
I once had a game with her where I was land screwed so incredibly hard but still managed to win thanks to the Powerstones. (I’m talking like, 2 lands in the top 25. It was awful.)
Love it :D
My Shirei deck makes everybody grin with malicious intent.
Burglar rats + blasting station when Shirei is out is too funny to not play
Truly malicious :D
Great video but I think k'rrik deserves a mention as well. I know it's popular but you can do some crazy stuff with him
I put him in my Verrak deck and whenever he hits the board crazy stuff happens.
holy shit infernal mentioned, hearthstone peak
I'm partial to Shirei personally.
21:13 Maralen and Ob Nixilis, Unshackled! 😂
want a card? Pay 13 life and sac a creature
Patron of the Nezumi does NOT work like syr konrad. It says permanents, not permanent cards, meaning they have to be on the field first to trigger the patron's ability.
Thank, you, that's a good catch!
Endrek works well as a storm commander, using heartless summoning and death triggers so the thrulls die immediately for value to fuel an aristocrats engine for storm payoff like bitter ordeal simce tolens hit the grave
Heartless summonings is one of those cards that is so cool and so unique at the same time, that I really wish I could put more than 1 copy in my commander deck.
@@theseppfuchs blood funnel is a nice include to go alongside it
@@Jack-in-the-Mox That card is sick! I didn't know it existed, thank you :).
Its not actually a good edh card lol it doesnt say you control 😂
look like yt deleted my comment 'carnival of souls' was the card i mentioned
I had a horobi deck it cost like 50$ all together it was fun
Will you be covering multi-colours as well?
That's the plan :)
Rip gisa
Would have been a good inclusion. For black I had to make a few cuts, because the video would have been way too long :D.
Anyway thanx for the really food content ❤🇮🇹
Nice but... where is Braids?
Didn't make the cut because I thought she was a little too well known. Also, there might be some personal feelings involved, but let's not talk about it :D.
What about xiahou dun😢
He is certainly very stylish - I especially love his Gift Card version - had to make some cuts though.