Theros - Devotion to Darkness

With the "Devotion to Darkness" deck, your primary goal is to assemble many black permanents to increase your devotion to black—the number of black mana symbols (Black Mana) in the mana costs of permanents you control.

You'll want to play defensively in the early game to keep your creatures alive and counting toward your devotion. Gray Merchant of Asphodel is one of the most powerful devotion effects in the deck, so it's a good strategy to hold it until you have many other black permanents on the battlefield. Abhorrent Overlord is a powerful way to turn your devotion into a game-winning army of fliers all by itself.

Since many of your creatures are good at playing defense, you have the luxury of saving your creature-removal spells for only the biggest threats. You'll be able to gain life along the way with Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Pharika's Cure, and Insatiable Harpy. Lots of your creatures have abilities that trigger when they enter the battlefield, so cards that let you reuse them, like March of the Returned and Rescue from the Underworld, are especially potent.

• 9 Island
  
• 16 Swamp
  
• 1 Abhorrent Overlord
  
• 2 Blood-Toll Harpy
  
• 2 Child of Night
  
• 2 Disciple of Phenax
  
• 2 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  
• 2 Horizon Scholar
  
• 2 Insatiable Harpy
  
• 1 Minotaur Abomination
  
• 2 Mogis's Marauder
  
• 2 Returned Phalanx
  
• 2 Undead Minotaur
  
• 1 Boon of Erebos
  
• 2 Glimpse the Future
  
• 1 Griptide
  
• 1 Lash of the Whip
  
• 1 March of the Returned
  
• 1 Ordeal of Thassa
  
• 1 Pharika's Cure
  
• 1 Rescue from the Underworld
  
• 1 Sea God's Revenge
  
• 2 Sip of Hemlock
  
• 1 Voyage's End
  
• 1 Whip of Erebos
  
• 1 Witches' Eye

Also includes 2 sealed booster packs.