This combination of cards lets Walking Ballista gain counters when targeting itself for damage to give it an infinite number of counters to burn your opponents out of the game
Great versus Genesect/Virizion/Celebi, competitive with most other decks, but struggles at times
Mono Black Decklist 4 Necropotence 2 Bloodstained Mire 4 March of Wretched Sorrow 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Orcish Bowmasters 4 Dark Ritual 7 Swamp 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 The One Ring 4 Fatal Push 4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Go for the Throat 1 Restless Cottage 3 Blooming Marsh 4 Woodland Cemetery 4 Polluted Delta 2 Tear Asunder 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator The Mono Black archetype has always been extremely flexible, focusing on control spells to gain the upper hand on the battlefield
However, if youre a collector, seeing this card in your collection is a real treat due to the holographic foiling that combines with the black card design for a haunting hue
The deck is fine once it has two mana but you need to get to that point and so you just have to play a lot of low powered ramp effects
Top-Seika did not sign its licensing agreement with Shogakukan until 1997