"Shrieking Affliction: Mono Black Discard 2014"

"Shrieking Affliction: Mono Black Discard 2014"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. 

I have always preached disruption. The schemers and the long planners ,  They need a little chaos in their world. They need a little brain adjustment. What makes this deck so sweet is that their loss also represent their doom.

22 X Swamps

4 X Drain Piper Vermin

4 X Slum Reaper

3 X Liliana's Reaver

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11 Creatures

4 X Shrieking Affliction

4 X Thought Seize

4 X Duress

3 X Underworld Dreams

4 X Mind Rot

4 X Ultimate Price

4 X Doom Blade

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27 Spells

This deck revolves around the Shrieking Affliction.A one Mana Costing Enchantment that makes opponents lose 3 life if they have 1 or fewer cards at hand.I put 4 in here because I love annihilating hands more than I love annihilating creatures on the board(Well that is the mood that I am in anyway). Control players have lesser creatures anyway. So this deck is about controlling control and making them lose life when whey lose their ideas.

Thought Seize, Duress and Mind Rot are great at the discarding. Then there are creatures that work to your advantage too like Drain Piper Vermin and Liliana's Reaver. The former makes an opponent discard when it dies and the latter does the same while giving you a 2/2 Zombie in the process after it has damaged your opponent for 4 life. 

Players who play Blue might be able to recover with sufficient card drawing but by then it might not be enough with the control that you have established. I just can't wait to test this next year.( Two days from now!)

So with the dwindling resource that is their hand , opponents are now faced with the question of dying from your creatures or dying from the Shrieking Affliction. None are good choices as I would like to say.