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The Return of Black Devotion

Many things happened this week. Tempest Remastered is announced; Nothing can I trust in old cards anymore. Rebound is confirmed as a mechanism in Dragons of Tarkir; I started to collect Monastery Mentor.

I am also busy drafting Fate Khans Khans, during which I found a possible card for Black devotion: Ancestral Vengeance.
Ancestral Vengeance
In a draft, I didn't read clearly the text and put it on one of my creatures,without a choice, I put the +1/+1 on it too. I thought it add -1/-1 counter on another creature and make its target +1/+1. Whatever it does, I can put it on a creature for devotion. 

The spoiled cards like Risen Executioner and Sidisi, Undead Vizier have given me some ideas of what a black devotion deck is like. 
 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

The deck may be like this one:



Risen Executioner 4
Gray Merchant of Asphodel 4
a three drop zombie 4

Hero's Downfall 4
Ancestral Vengeance 4
Other removals 4-6

Palace Siege 2-4
Whip of Erebos 2
Thoughseize 4
a card drawing spell 4

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 4
20 Swamps


You may splash a few copies of Crater's Claws. Other colors are also welcomed to be in this deck.
I hope in Dragons there will be a card going well with Palace Siege's "Khans" ability.

Palace Siege

Results: The standard is too fast for a Mono black deck like the one we played in the previous Standard. We shouldn't build around it.

Please go to the following pages for other potential decks:
Ramp Decks
Black Devotion
Mono Red with Dragon Whisperer

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