It was just another deck in the format, and was a pretty big underdog to decks with a lot of interaction (Jund, Abzan, etc.)
If its not, you can cast it for one generic mana
He thought to himself, What if I could build a deck that utilized both of these cards as win conditions, and actually make those win conditions consistent? His idea took off with a start, building what was considered one of the first ever Mono Black Control decks in the newer Modern format
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