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I feel that all black decks should include a copy of the card “Swamp”. It allows you to tap it and add one black mana for absolutely no cost. An incredible include in any black deck, and one that should not be overlooked.

If we're allowing combos, I would've included Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Cabal Coffers.

One of my favourite black cards of all time is Tragic Slip. I think its criminally underated. 1 black mana at instant speed to basically kill anything seeing as how morbid is NOT hard to trigger in a game.

Ι've replaced all of my Hero's Downfalls with Murderous RIders since the extra body with lifelink almost always is worth the 2 life

Prof: "It is essentially a doomblade." Terror: "Am I a joke to you?"

(Demonic tutor) "It's hard to justify not running a copy" Justification: It's $26.

Love how you used a demon that would naturally die to a -5-5 deluge activation if you hadn't used its activated ability 😂

My pick is "exsanguinate" Casting it for 10 when you're at 1 life against 3 opponents is an incredible rush. Also it's still reasonably priced around $7 last I checked

Bolas' Citadel is one of the most powerful cards black has received in a long time. I feel like it deserves at least an honorable mention somewhere.

A black card I always play and recomend is read the bones. The fact it gets you 4 cards deep is so fantastic and the amount of times it gets overlooked is absurd

In one or two color decks, Gary is always welcome.

"Ya know who i think of when it comes to being ambitious, ruthless, cuthroat, and possibly evil ready to do anything to achieve their goal? MY SPONSOR AUDUBLE of course" Way to sell the virtue of that sponsorship prof, lol

I feel read the bones should have gotten an honorable mention

Some of my favorite black cards in commander: Victimize: Excellent reanimation value. Unearth: Reanimate's younger brother, with cycling when you don't need it. Black Market: Insane mana generation. Phyrexian Reclamation: WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS CARD? The amount of resilience this card grants your deck is staggering. Dismember: great targeted removal, even for pesky indestructibles. Dark Imposter: Repeatable unconditional exile effect? Yes, please.

Hear that WOTC? Here is your Spell Book: Black primer

Honorable mention to Decree of Pain!

About animate read and reanimate: try the card Necromancy! It's the same effect for 2B, basically you enchant a creature from any graveyard and it enters the battlefield under your control (but without the -1-0). Also, you can play it at instant speed if you sac the creature at the end of turn. Great surprise blocker.

ahhh yes, the routinely, and classically forgotten black card "demonic tutor"

Bolas' Citadel, it's too good not to run in a black edh deck.

0: Gary, merchant of asphodel

Hero's Downfall: *joins the game* Me: *laughs in Bedevil*

i really like how well the theme of the sponsorship part matches with the video, made it quite interesting

This channel is the only channel where I like to listen to the sponsorship shoutouts. The Professor just does it exquisitely.

Sudden Spoiling, great versatility in attack or defense

I love the way Prof says "again".

I genuinely love your audible book recommendations. It’s an AD that I enjoy?! Crazy

Solid video! I'd always nice to see a new video from you. One thing I'd like to see maybe in the future would be a list of color combo commanders. Show what you think is the best per color combo and then show a few cards that would support the commander. Anyway, great job professor!

I think Dark Ritual is a great card to run in any black commander deck. Gaining three mana for one is a great tempo swing that is overlooked. In the early rounds of the game it can put you very far ahead.

I feel urborg, tomb of yawgmoth or cabal coffers should have got a spot

Nice. I like these videos. They make me realize I'm missing a ton of must-have cards.

Great list and congrats on 500k subs!! I'd have tried to get Gary in there somewhere. I know he's really at his strongest in mono black but I think he still belongs on the list!

Some really great choices. Just wish Read the Bones, Night's Whisper, or Sign in Blood had made the list.

I own most of those cards and yes, black is my favorite colour. I feel great :3

Great list! Thanks for sharing. I've always loved Animate Dead. :)

Gratz on 500k prof, also please keep getting sponsors. I think most people understand how rough monetization is ATM.

Vampire Nighthawk. Two black and a colorless for flying, deathtouch, and lifelink.

I’m gonna need 1 and a Black to bring me back from that joke.

This guy is my go to to know what I need know and build what to get or miss review and learn 👍

TCC video on my Birthday! Day gets better and better!

"What is you have a 6/6?" Chooses a 6/6 that enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it, and can put -1/-1 counters on opponents

Honestly, Demonic Tutor needs to be reprinted in Commander Legends.

I've been making a mono-black deck so this video was uploaded at the perfect time!

Great video Prof! Black has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember - solid list :) I don't know about EVERY black deck, but I recently started running Black Market in my Yawgmoth deck and it can get insane really quickly... If you combo with Mikeaus and two other non-human creatures you can generate infinite black mana. Albeit, it does require you to have some board presence, but it's still really fun and effective - considering at that same time if one of those non-human creatures is say... Blood Artist, you can also draw your whole deck and drain your opponents out, and if you didn't win from that, you can cast every black card from your hand with the infinite mana you made from Black Market the following turn.

I see that copy of Ravnica: Inquisition on yo shelf👀

All my black Commander's decks have Dark Ritual.

Congrats on 500k subscribers!

Grats on 500k professor. Keep teaching for a long time sir!

I'm sure it's been said and everyone knows it but Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Cabal Coffers are immediate picks.

Bolas' citadel 👀

That's a great list. I would throw force of despair in for removal too. I love it. Especially against green ramp decks.

Digging the new looks Prof.

Crypt Ghast, Altar's Reap. I love these cards. Even if it's a deck of two or more colors, would Dark Ritual be considerable? Priest of Forgotten Gods, or whatever her name is, is also fantastic.

dark ritual and yawgmoth's will are pretty hard to beat

you should update this video every year...great job!!

I actually really liked your Audible plug.

You know what they say. Once you go black.. you usually come back to a multi colored build.

i like using "in garruk wake" in decks that can use black, a full 1 sided wipe if you got the mana

Bond/Blood was the combo that sold me on mtg, and combos in general. It still resides in my first commander deck, as it began in my first deck, a 60 card WB.

Bola's Citadel ! Such a strong card that nearly always has to be dealt with the moment it hits the board

Isn't Murderous Rider almost strictly better version of Hero's Downfall in EDH? 2 life for "drawing" a mediocre creature seems like a good bargain.

"I am soooo ollllld". hahaha. me too prof, me too.

Love the video, so interested to see the other colours.

Congrats on 500K Subscribers!!!!!!

"It's hard to justify not running a copy". Well, say that to my wallet, Fancy Prof. :'v

"59 seconds ago" well hot damn

I like Mutilate in my mono black EDH too and my beseech the Queen is nice too. Ty for the nice video :)

Everyone forgets pestilence great card for combo that was showed. Great video.

I always run Torment of Hailfire in any of my black edh decks

Hair is growing back quickly.. :)

*Sees sponsor* Awesome book, I’ve read it twice and it’s a wonderful read. I read a similar book called “The Watchmaker of Filigree Street” which is a delightful read even if the story doesn’t go anywhere

500k subscribers!!! wooooow! congratulations!

Me: *Looks at my Imperial Seal.* Me: *Looks at the price on TCGPlayer.* Me: *Laughs maniacally in black.*

That music reminds me... I should go check up on the Kill Count series. Been a while; I'm sure I've missed some episodes.

Love the list, Professor. I'd add Bolas' Citadel I do think Night Circus is a great recommendation for audible. It is a slow burn of a story, and not very action oriented but it is an enjoy able story.

Congrats on 500k Professor 😁👍

The lack of Living Death in this list is criminal

Congrats on 500K subs prof!

Idk why but that crowd sound bite for phx arena made me spazz. Good list.

I loved the Night Circus, wonderful book

love the content prof but i can’t in good conscience support amazon

Shout out to audible, the real OG funding all my favourite KZfaqrs!

When pondering the sacrificial possibilities at the breadth of black sorcery, Audible comes to mind.

I totally agree for the most part, personally! Running a reanimate/zombie build, spark harvest would be the play I believe. Side note! (You are very helpful! My girlfriend and my self are learning commander! And brawler! Thank you for the videos!

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is the top of my list for cards belonging in any black commander deck. Demonic Tutor is a close second IF you are trying to build the strongest deck possible. There are decks I refuse to run Demonic Tutor in since they are already powerful enough (Gitrog, I'm looking at you) and I'd like to try and restrain the power level. I also don't have enough copies to run in all my black commander decks. Regarding Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood, I would never run those in a deck where life gain is not already a theme. I have tried them in a vampire tribal deck (they also had flavor points there), but it always felt awful drawing one of them. Individually, they were usually a dead draw as they are basically a do nothing enchantment. Unless your deck is built around tutoring this combo out or has other ways of generating value from one of the enchantments, there are better cards you could play. Urborg, Cabal Coffers, and Exsanguinate will often do just as good a job at killing all your opponents. The difference is that 2 of those 3 cards don't take up a spell slot and all of them can still do good things without the other two (Cabal Coffers is questionable outside two color decks). Of course, commander isn't always the place to run the "best" deck. If you want to run this combo, go for it. I just think it is far from a must-run.

Oh sh*t the last time i saw the prof was at game knights and there he had long hair and now i am traumatised.

When no ASMR works (AKA, everytime) Professor's voice never lets me down ♥️

For commander gotta say Price of Fame 2 mana. Destroy target commander. Surveil 2.

0/10 didn't see a bolas citadel lol.

I love Vicious Rumors. Pretty good value for one B, love it in my Nath Commander deck.

Phyrexian arena is fun to do with Villas on field Draw 3! And I think tomb of yawgmoth with the cabal lands should've been some honorable mentions

Def don’t use your credit on War of the Spark Forsaken....

I am actually opposed to Demonic Tutor, but that's cause I want to popularize no-tutor commander. Tutors go against one of the core fundamentals of the format: varied game play. They make games play out the same way, especially when it comes to combo decks. Commander was designed with 100 card singleton decks so that games wouldn't be the same every time. So what I like to do is have commander games with the only things that can search libraries be things that can get basic lands only. That means green doesn't lose a big piece of it's color identity, and allows for decent fixing, and makes the games much more varied.

Massacre Girl has quicky become a favorite of mine. It can work as a panic button and becomes a great board wipe leaving you with one creature on your side if done right. Depending on what your opponents have in play it can uickly kill everything or most everything instantly.

Like this series, hope white isn't the last colour you cover.

Phyrexian arena is too slow for even regular play, I would go with greed, arguels blood fast, or even Grim haruspex, which can work in every black deck

So, I havent played MTG in a while, or watched this or anyother MTG channel in a while, why is The Prof bald?

If you're playing mono black, or anything without blue, I'd suggest ancient craving, night's whisper, read the bones & sign in blood. Some of my favorite black card draw spells, really good flavor-wise too. Being able to draw you cards just as good as any blue cantrip, assuming you're willing to pay a little life.

Cool, was thinking about swamp mana casting cost cards recently too.

Well, Ad Nauseam and Doomsday are definitely two Magic cards.