{"id":71,"date":"2012-04-21T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ajmtg.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2012-04-28T03:51:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T03:51:46","slug":"1-drop-deck-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ajmtg.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Never Get Mana Screwed Again! – 1 Drop Deck – Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After sitting bored for an unknown amount of time, I decided to whip out the ol’ Magic collection and try my hand at a new concoction. Winning wasn’t really the thing that I was concerned about. The goal for this deck was going to be to never be able to truly be mana screwed. How could I go about that? Make a mono colored deck where everything costs 1 mana.<\/p>\n

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The original idea for the deck was to have it be pauper and the best one drops that I could think of that I had on hand were Vampire Lacerator<\/a> and Pulse Tracker<\/a>. They put some good early pressure on with the damages. Those two creatures alone made the decision to make the deck black. But after the deck lost game after game in playtesting against mediocre decks I had to up the ante to any rarity of one drops.<\/p>\n

Upon looking through my collection further I found a nice suite of removal to back up the squishy creatures. Disfigure<\/a>, Executioner’s Capsule<\/a>, Ghastly Demise<\/a>, Innocent Blood<\/a> and Tragic Slip<\/a> are the backbone of the deck. Without removing the creatures from the way of my tiny wave of chump creatures the deck couldn’t possibly come close to winning.<\/p>\n

After looking through every black one drop that I had available and playtesting against some other casual decks that I have laying around, I came to this list. Keep in mind that these are all cards that I already owned and had readily available.<\/p>\n