Kokusho
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• Tons of Animate Dead effects (for Kokusho, which you put in the graveyard instead of command zone)
• Copy creature effects (not too much in mono-black, but there is some)
• Copy trigger (Strionic Resonator)
• Double life loss (Wound Reflection / Archfield of Despair)
Mana Acceleration (12):
General (1):
Spells (36):
Sideboard (Omitted/Cut card ideas):
1 Burnished Hart
1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
1 Blade of Selves
1 Zombify
1 Caged Sun
1 Cauldron of Souls
1 Unbreakable Bond
1 Dragon's Hoard
Creatures (15):
1 God-Pharaoh's Gift
1 Doomed Necromancer
1 Dreamstone Hedron
1 Meteor Golem
1 Helm of the Host
1 Makeshift Mannequin
1 Hedron Archive
1 Apprentice Necromancer
1 Minion Reflector
1 Cauldron's Gift
1 Magnifying Glass
1 Archfiend of Despair
1 Mirage Mirror
1 Bond of Revival
1 Mind Stone
1 Chainer, Dementia Master
1 Mirror of the Forebears
1 Rescue from the Underworld
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Champion of Stray Souls
1 Nim Deathmantle
1 Angelic Rocket
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Coffin Queen
1 Strionic Resonator
1 Infernal Offering
1 Unstable Obelisk
1 Demon of Dark Schemes
1 Well of Lost Dreams
1 Diabolic Servitude
1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
1 Gravewaker
1 Animate Dead
1 Sanguine Bond
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
1 Hell's Caretaker
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Defiant Bloodlord
1 Isareth the Awakener
1 Blood for Bones
1 Necromantic Summons
Lands (36):
1 Nightmare Shepherd
1 Command the Dreadhorde
1 Rise from the Grave
1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
1 Magus of the Will
1 Corpse Dance
1 The Eldest Reborn
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Dance of the Dead
1 Fearsome Awakening
1 Cabal Stronghold
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Dawn of the Dead
1 Betrayal of Flesh
1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
1 Demonic Gifts
1 Postmortem Lunge
1 High Market
1 Dread Return
1 Endless Obedience
1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
1 Ever After
1 Necromantic Selection
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Footsteps of the Goryo
1 Stir the Grave
1 Mirrorpool
1 Goryo's Vengeance
1 Fated Return
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Grim Return
1 Profane Command
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
1 Soul Separator
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Minion's Return
1 Artisan of Kozilek
1 War Room
1 Necromancy
1 Living Death
1 Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog
1 Stitch Together
1 Living End
22 Swamp
1 Strands of Night
1 Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator
1 Sol Ring
1 Supernatural Stamina
1 Rise of the Dark Realms
1 Thrilling Encore
1 Twilight's Call
1 Undying Evil
1 Body Snatcher
1 Unhallowed Pact
1 Tempt with Immortality
1 Wake the Dead
1 Exhume
1 Whip of Erebos
1 Patriarch's Bidding
1 Wound Reflection
1 Reanimate
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Shallow Grave