Legacy Pox deck

UPDATED MARCH/2022
Pox, or sometimes known as Smallpox, is a control deck. It's a more specific genre inside the Mono-Black Control umbrella term. It receives its name originally from the card <c>Pox</c>, which was mostly replaced by the newer <c>Smallpox</c> after its printing.
==Overview==
Pox is a strategy that is present in Legacy and Modern.
It is a type of Mono-Black control deck and can be particularly strong against combos.
The most frequent ways to build a Pox deck can be:
* Mana-denial
* Board control
* Hand disruption
But it is common to find a deck using a mix of those game-plans.
Although it may suffer from faster combos (Such as Reanimator, Oops, All Spells and Belcher), it usually has a variety of cards to dismantle the opponent's strategy.
Also, the average strength against combo matchups tend to greatly increase post-Sideboarding (in games 2 and 3 of the match) once the Pox player knows what they are dealing with.
It is a classic deck that has been around the format since its inception.
The average land count in the deck ranges from 23 to 29. And it may also splash Green for slight deckbuilding variants - such as <c>Life from the Loam</c> in the Mainboard and cards like <c>Abrupt Decay</c>, <c>Assassin's Trophy</c> and <c>Weather the Storm</c> in the Sideboard.
Even though the most used Reserved List card in Pox is <c>Cursed Scroll</c> (which is present in not all decklists), it may be replaced by <c>Urza's Saga</c> + <c>Retrofitter Foundry</c>.
==Contemporary Decklists==
<deck title="4th Place: Pox - Dalton Griffith - Dragon Master Games (Binghamton, NY) - 20/11/21">
Lands
1 Castle Locthwain
4 Ghost Quarter
4 Mishra's Factory
6 Snow-Covered Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland
Instants and sorceries
4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Pox
2 Sinkhole
4 Smallpox
4 Sudden Edict
4 Thoughtseize
Other spells
3 Cursed Scroll
2 Leyline of the Void
3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
Sideboard
2 Break the Ice
4 Dark Confidant
2 Engineered Plague
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Pithing Needle
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Toxic Deluge
</deck>
==See also==
* Black
* Green
* Golgari
* Control
* Legacy
* Modern
* Vintage
* Reserved List
* Revitalization of Legacy
Category:Tournament decks
Category:Legacy format
Category:Deck archetypes