5 best Black Magic: The Gathering cards for Dominaria United’s Limited format
In Magic: The Gathering, Black as a color is dominated by strategies of graveyard retrieval and removal. It’s generally paired with skeletons, zombies, horrors, and other monstrosities. In Dominaria United, Magic: The Gathering’s latest expansion, this trend certainly seems to have continued. As always, Black has quite a few colors it synergizes well with, especially in the Limited format.
Whether it’s removing creatures from the board, or dragging them back into existence, Black is going to likely be a powerful color in both the Limited and Standard formats for Magic: The Gathering players in this expansion.
One of the most popular combinations for Black is the Black/Blue control partnership (Dimir), but control is seldom successful in Limited. This is when it's compared to more aggressive decks at any rate. That said, Black’s card removal - discard and creature destruction - will possibly be quite useful.
When it comes to Limited, Black/Red and Black/Green will be especially powerful, as will Black/White. It may also be possible to see success with White/Black/Red, a Defender deck built with Glibbering Barricade.
While there are plenty of great low-cost, high-value cards in Black, here are some of the best Magic: The Gathering cards to keep an eye out for. Fortunately, it’s not an exhaustive list of commons and uncommons as there are plenty of other choices that players could find useful.
A common trope for Skeletons is that they have high power and low toughness. This 2 power, 1 toughness creature comes into play tapped, but only costs 1 mana, making it an excellent turn 1 drop. It can be returned from the graveyard to your battlefield for 2 mana, only if a non-Skeleton creature you control died this turn.
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