Penny Paradise Champions Spotlight

Penny Paradise 1.04 was another great event last night with a very close top 8.  Sitting on the throne last night for the first time this season was J_Meka with his storm combo deck.  Since we've already gone over a storm combo deck in this article series let's take a look at another interesting and powerful deck instead.

Coming in 3rd place, with a 5-1 record, was 13eakers with his mono black control deck. Let's take a look at how powerful mono black is in Penny Dreadful.

[[deck: 15591]]


This deck thrives on discard. Hitting you on turn 2 with an [[card_link: addle]] or a [[card_link: distress]] and following it up with a turn 3 [[card_link: hypnotic specter]] can be devastating for a lot of decks.  While this deck slowly eats away at your hand it has removal spells like [[card_link: cruel edict]] and [[card_link: ultimate price]] for any creatures you get down on board.  There are a few good value cards like [[card_link: gatekeeper of malakir]] and [[card_link: entomber exarch]] which not only drop a creature but also provide a useful effect when they hit the battlefield.

After last night, I'm pegging this deck as my "darkhorse" in a meta where "red deck wins" and "storm combo" are the decks to beat, this one seems to have a good approach to solving them.  I would be surprised if we didn't see more of this "mbc" in the coming weeks and will personally be testing with different variants of it.

Any one who's interested in Penny Dreadful and would like to compete in our free entry tournament should visit http://pennyparadisemtgo.weebly.com/ for more info.  The tournament has great people, great decks and great prizes provided by Manatraders.com and runs weekly. Hope to see you there.

Thanks for reading and see you all next week for another addition of Champions Spotlight.

[[published_at: 16 Feb 2017, 3:00 pm]]
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