My Deck

[Deck Discussion]

Deck Name: BOOM!

4X Thought Couriers
4X KoKusho
4X Daring Apprentice
4X Clone (to kill Legends and my own KoKusho)
4XShirei (so the apprentice can die every turn)
4X Hell's Caretaker

4X Zombify
2X Pithing Needle (you know why)
4X Hinder (or Mana Leak)
4X Ideas Unbound

10 swamps
10 Island
1 Minamo
1 Shizo

Side:
2X Pithing Needle
1X Eradicate
4X Dark Banishing (Rend?)
4X Boomerang
4X Hideous Laughter

[rich]

The deck is in need of 4 Underground Rivers. It also has some problem with a couple of the control decks that are based heavily in the Mirrodin block. Once Mirrodin drops out and Ravnica enters the scene in a month this deck should become much more formidable.

Also, I've been using 2x Kuro, the Pitlord instead of Pithing Needles. And I have a slightly different sideboard (since I can't afford the Cranial Extractions). You should definitely replace the 4x Dark Banashing with 2x Rend Flesh and 2x Rend Spirit. Much more effective since it can handle other Black Creatures. Although, with most black decks you should be fine with Kiku's Shadow. Perhaps 2 each of the cards that kill a green or white creature and then let you draw. They cost the same as Dark Banishing. I know one of them is called Execute, i forget the other.

[soronthebeast]

took out 4 Shirei for 3 footsteops of goryo, and a pitlord

took out 4 apprentices for 4 boomerangs

only own one needle so put in a tidal kraken. (it was realy funny when I cloned that)

Competly changed the side board

[rich]

This is how I'm running it online now:

Lands x22
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Island x9
Swamp x9
Underground River x2
Minamo, School at Water's Edge x1
Shizo, Death's Storehouse x1

Creatures x18
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Thought Courier x4
Hell's Caretaker x4
Clone x4
Kokusho, the Evening Star x4
Kuro, the Pitlord x2

Spells x20
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Hinder x4
Hideous Laughter x2
Kiku's Shadow x2
Zombify x4
Footsteps of the Goryo x4
Ideas Unbound x4

Sideboard
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Boomerang x3
Dark Banishing x2
Hideous Laughter x2
Kiku's Shadow x2
Rend Spirit x3
Rend Flesh x3

The sideboard is kind of crap and is really aimed to handle a lot of large creatures, a deck that is the same as mine, or a deck using the Mirror that get's rid of the Legend Rule. (Those are a pain) I want to still get 3x Cranial Extractions and 2x Pithing Needle for the sideboard. But I don't have a hojillion dollars. When I get those I'll remove the Dark Banishings, one of each Rend, and a Hideous Laughter from the SB.

It seems to work very well now even against the White Weenie decks. Umezawa's Jitte is still a real problem but manageable now that there are ways other than the 2 Caretakers to get stuff out of the graveyard.