He is an amazingly-versatile creature who can bring the hurt quite easily unto your opponents. Syr Konrad, the Grim – An individual mention is needed for Syr Konrad.

Straight-up on-death abilities – Of course, what good black deck is complete without abilities that trigger off of things dying? To this end we have all of the necessary Aristocrat pieces ( Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Falkenrath Noble, and Vindictive Vampire), Kokusho, the Evening Star, and Cavalier of Night serve as decent board-wipe deterrents if not used to your nefarious ends. Cards like Pitiless Plunderer also do this, but they make Treasures instead of creatures. Sifter of Skulls and Pawn of Ulamog are fantastic especially because the creatures they make can be sacrificed later on for Bontu reasons. Source: Wizards of the Coastĭeath-mitigation effects – In addition to creatures which just plain come back, this deck has creatures that will allow you to mitigate the loss of creatures brought on by sacrifice or similar things. Bloodghast, Gravecrawler, and Reassembling Skeleton are prime examples of this, but the relatively-new (circa Rivals of Ixalan) Oathsworn Vampire does a decent job of coming back too (especially if you have an Ashnod's Altar and a Bog Initiate out!). Self-recursive creatures – There are plenty of creatures that replenish themselves directly and literally in this deck. It is likely that Bontu knew that her siblings would be eternalized as well, and wanted no part of that fate. In fact, Bontu is in on the plan! Bolas's plan spans 60 years and Bontu has been with Bolas throughout the entire duration. Only green can really do this much better than black on a regular basis, but black has a real knack for using creatures which can do this all by themselves – and with a little bit of mana as payment, of course.īlack is a color of ambition, and so I pose this question: In the recent stories, which embodiment of black is a better example of ambition (and its costs) than Bontu the Glorified? Source: Wizards of the Coastīontu is a notable character in the Amonkhet storyline because she is the only of the Amonkheti gods who know about Nicol Bolas's plans to transmute the population of the Egyptian-styled plane of existence into Eternals, inorganic, blindly-obedient zombie warriors who remember nothing but their martial prowess. What are the good points of black? Well, for those of you with abandonment issues, you know full well what black can do for you – mostly, it allows its users to bring back the things they've lost quite handily.

Mtg bontu the glorified dredge edh