The Black Deck – The Rummaging Gang

Black is about reanimation!  I would like to make my own reanimation enchantment, have a glaring omission (Reoccurring Nightmare will be in the first update), and feel the need to cut counter spells, yet feel this deck is closer to ready than the first two.

General (1):

The Rummaging Gang

Creature (12):

Ashen Rider

Body Double

Dark Confidant

Eye of Insanity

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Griselbrand

Magus of the Orb

Resurrection Guide

Snapcaster Mage

Sun Titan

Tarmogoyf

Young Pyromancer

Enchantment (5):

Animate Dead

Dance of the Dead

Frozen in Time

Necromancy

Sylvan Library

Instant (15):

Ancestral Recall

Black Elemental Blast

Brainstorm

Dark Ritual

Dismember

Force of All

Force of Will

Internal Struggle

Lightning Bolt

Misdirection

Off to Paradise

Pact of Negation

Perpend

Skeletal Scrying

Swords to Plowshares

Sorcery (19):

Balance

Contract from Below

Cruel Ultimatum

Damnation

Darkpact

Duress

Psychic Shredder

Regrowth

Thoughtseize

Ponder

Portent

Preordain

Think About It

Time Walk

Timetwister

Toxic Deluge

Vindicate

Wheel of Fortune

Yawgmoth’s Will

Planeswalker (4):

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

The Heart of Bolas

Xarin, Dread Bringer

Artifact (14):

Black Lotus

Chaos Orb

Jeweled Bird

Lightning Greaves

Mox Emerald

Mox Jet

Mox Pearl

Mox Ruby

Mox Sapphire

Nihil Spellbomb

Sensei’s Divining Top

Sol Ring

Torpor Orb

Umezawa’s Jitte

Land (30):

Ancient Tomb

Badlands

Bayou

Blood Crypt

Cascading Chasm

Cavern of Souls

City of Brass

City of Greed

Command Tower

Godless Shrine

Karakas

Library of Alexandria

Mana Confluence

Maze of Ith

Mishra’s Sweatshop

Overgrown Tomb

Plateau

Reflecting Pool

Savannah

Scrubland

Strip Mine

Taiga

Tolarian Academy

Tropical Island

Tundra

Underground Sea

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Volcanic Island

Wasteland

Watery Grave

Card Spoiler:

The Rummaging Gang

BR/GW/U

Legendary Creature – Gremlin

Commanding — When The Rummaging Gang enters the battlefield, choose one for each time it has been cast from the command zone — Another target creature gets -2/-2; or target opponent discards a card at random; or return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or transform The Rummaging Gang.

Unanteable (If The Rummaging Gang would be put into the ante or you would lose ownership, instead put it into your graveyard, then ante the top card of you library.)

2/3

The Restful Fellows (The Rummaging Gang’s Transformation)

Legendary Creature – Gremlin Treefolk

(The Restful Fellows is white, black and green.)

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature’s combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it’s being blocked by or is blocking.)

Unanteable (If The Restful Fellows would be put into the ante or you would lose ownership, instead put it into your graveyard, then ante the top card of you library.)

3/6

Eye of Insanity

1BR

Creature – Eye

Haste

Annihilator 1

At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice Eye of Insanity.

0/1

Magus of the Orb

Artifact Creature – Human Wizard

Creatures entering the battlefield don’t cause abilities to trigger.

2/1

Resurrection Guide

1WW

Creature – Human Spirit

Flying

When Resurrection Guide enters the battlefield from a graveyard, return target creature from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Unearth 1BB

1/2

Frozen in Time

2U

Enchantment

When Frozen in Time enters the battlefield, target creature phases out.

Cards phased out by Frozen in Time can’t phase in.

Black Elemental Blast

B

Instant

Choose one — Counter target white spell; or destroy target white permanent.

Force of All

1W/UB/UR/UG/U

Ante Instant

You may exile a noncolorless card from your hand rather than pay Force of All’s mana cost.

Counter target spell, then ante the top card of your library.

Internal Struggle

UUBB

Instant

Counter target spell. If a spell is countered this way, its controller discards two cards at random.

Off to Paradise

W

Instant

Exile target creature, then ante the top card of your library.

Perpend

R

Instant

Draw three cards, then discard two cards.

Darkpact (Updated)

Ante Sorcery

Choose target card in the ante and reveal the top card of your library. If the target is still legal and a card was revealed as this spell resolves, exchange ownership of the cards, then simultaneously put the target card on the top of your library and put the revealed card into the ante.

Psychic Shredder

B

Ante Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player antes that card, then ante the top card of your library.

Think About It

U

Ante Sorcery

Scry 4, draw a card, then ante the top card of your library.

The Heart of Bolas

0

Artifact Planeswalker – Bolas

+1: Add 1 to your mana pool.

-7: Put a blue, black and red Bolas planeswalker token named Bolas Reborn onto the battlefield with 7 loyalty and “+1: Target opponent discards his or her hand; -3: Draw three cards; -12: You win the game.”

1

Xarin, Dread Bringer

1BG

Planeswalker – Xarin

+1: Exile target card from a graveyard.

-3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

-6: Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled by Xarin, Dread Bringer.

3

Cascading Chasm

Land

When Cascading Chasm enters the battlefield, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a land card. You may put that card onto the battlefield. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.

City of Greed

Ante Land

Whenever City of Greed becomes tapped, ante the top card of your library.

T: Add 3 to your mana pool.

Mishra’s Sweatshop

T, pay 2 life: Add 3 to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on a spell, it gains vanishing 2. Spend this mana only to cast artifact, creature or enchantment spells.