Laern2Magic: Black

Hey everyone,

Welcome back to some more Learn2Magic, where I look at the basics and key features of Magic that are most important to learn for new players. This includes card mechanics and interactions that may be somewhat confusing at first, to help get new players on track and enjoying games sooner.

This week's video comes a little late due to work restraints and working much overtime in the recent weeks. It's been very hectic but I'm doing my best to get these videos out on time, and I appreciate your patience!

As you can imagine, black is the most diabolical of colours in Magic. It has some of the best tutor cards (cards that allow you to fetch a card from your library or graveyard and put it either into your hand, top of library or battlefield), kill spells (including straight up destroy and sacrifice spells) and believe it or not, draw spells as well.

Although not as strong as blue in the draw department, black can often draw you a card or two (though it may be conditional, like having zombies out while controlling a graveborn muse) and if it can't do that, it can at least let you search for one.

What else do you think about when you think black? Well, there's zombies, demons, vampires, and all sorts of other creatures of the night. Some of the cards in this deck have great utility, while others allow us to keep the pressure on our opponent. Bloodghast's ability to have haste when our opponent is at 10 life or less is not bad at all, but what makes him awesome is that whenever we play a land, we can remove him from the graveyard, and put him straight into play. That's 2 extra damage each turn to help hammer out the last few points of damage and destroy our opponent.

Other cards like Indulgent Tormentor allow us to not just have a beefy body that flies, but also gives us card advantage, or if not, hurts our opponent each and every turn by making him either pay 3 life or sacrificing a creature (instead of allowing us to draw a card).

As you will see in this video, card advantage, cantrips, and good use of utility cards is essential to making sure you win the game. There are plenty of options in other colours for these as well of course, but today we will be focusing on black.

If you have any questions about this deck, this colour, or have some suggestions of your own, make sure to leave it in the comments below, and thanks for watching!