[Deck] B/w Fish

[StasisMage]

     Having been intrigued by a black variant of Fish in an earlier thread, I began working on my own version of the variant. It was at first a mono black design that didn't quite fit my tastes and didn't have as many answers as I would have liked to have had, so I added a small white splash. Which so far has done well for me. My testing with the deck is not complete. Although the games I have played with it so far have gone well for the most part. Heres the deck list that I have been using Ill go over my card choices and what match analysis I do have.


Black Sunday
// Utility
        2 Swords to Plowshares
        3 Æther Vial
        3 Umezawa'sJitte
// Disruption
        4 Cabal Therapy
        4 Unmask
        4 Duress
        3 Chains of Mephistopheles
        3 Chalice of the Void
// Critters
        2 Nezumi Shortfang
        3 Nezumi Cutthroat
        3 Nezumi Graverobber
        4 Mesmeric Fiend
        3 Phyrexian Negator
// Mana
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Jet
        1 Black Lotus
        4 Scrubland
        4 Bloodstained Mire
        7 Swamp
        1 Mana Vault
        1 Sol Ring
//Sideboard
        1 Nevinyrral's Disk
        4 Chainer's Edict
        3 Engineered Plague
        2 Plains
        3 Disenchant
        2 Dust to Dust

The White Splash.
     White gave me access to the few answers that I was lacking from the black. Mainly in the form of the Disenchant's and the Dust to Dust's, both have proven themselves valuable to me.

Dust to Dust: If I'm not mistaken because it removes from game and does not destroy it, I can use it to get rid of one of the larger threats to me such as DSC. Just in case I don't get their Tinker with something else.

Swords to Plowshares Much the same reasoning behind the Dust to Dust being included. I like to Hedge my bets.

The Black heart of the deck.

Phyrexian Negator My big beat stick and easy enough to get out with the Aether Vial. Doesn't serve much pourpose opther then being a big warm body.

Mesmeric Fiend Random duress thats has a body. With luck he forces my opponent to be searchin for a way to get their card back, at least I hope so. Also serves as counter bait.

Nezumi Graverobber Graveyard removal can be very crucial to stopping my opponent's plans.

Nezumi Cutthroat Cheap threat with evasion. Might get the axe as he hasn't performed well so far.

Nezumi Shortfang Reuseable Duress albeit a bad one. The rack ability when I can get him to flip is a nice bonus though.

Chains of Mephistopheles Although this can be bad against certain decks I don't worry much because I have my faithful rat graverobbers. With the lack of draw spells in my deck it doesn't cause me much in the way of problems, I cant say the same for other decks so far.

Duress, Unmask, and Cabal Therapy[/b] These round out the most of the core of my black disruption for the deck. With unmask getting rid of most dead cards in my hand and Therapy has helped with pesky spirit tokens when the come along.

Artifacts

Chalice of the Void Unlike the Null Rods I considered using earlier these don't shut down the majority of my artifacts. I have had no problems with it so far but further games will tell in time.

Jitte Theres no reason this shouldn't be in a Fish. It has proven it's self valuableon many occasions.

Aether Vial Letting me slip my threats onto the board without worrying about counters is an absolutely invaluable ability to have.


Sideboard

Engineered Plague/b] FCG has been a horrible match up for me. This just shores up that weakness a bit, and hopefully letting me race to win the game.

Nevinyrral's Disk Haven't had a chance to use it yet, so I'm still uncertain about it.

Editc's Not quite the spot removal that the STPs are but pretty damn good for getting that lone Welder or other annoyances.

Plains With Dust to Dust's double white in the casting cost I felt that I might need more white mana available for when they go into the deck.


My match ups so far.

Oath
Oath hurts allot in game one because I don't have main decked Disenchants although the STP can help me a bit. This is precisely the deck made me add the Disenchants to the side board I can usually do allot better in the second and third games of a match with these in the deck.

FCG
I have yet to win any of my games against FCG, it just hurts me allot. Mommy make it stop!

I have played against a few other decks but I'm unsure of what they may have been so I will refrain from posting about them. If you would like to help test the deck please send me a PM it would greatly help me. Any comments?

[Firefly]

Phyrexian Negator My big beat stick and easy enough to get out with the Aether Vial. Doesn't serve much pourpose opther then being a big warm body.

Why would you want to put a Vial on 3 counters? You other creatures are 1B, Vial on 2 seems like a much better choice.

Negator is something you want on the board first or second turn with ritual. Third or fourth turn it will probably be obsolete.

Also, the Dust to Dust has double W in it's cost AND needs 2 Artifacts to even be played.

You call it Fish, then why don't you run any strip effects?

I think this deck could use some serious tuning, the matchup vs. Staxx and random control seems very hard.