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I can't read Japanese, but I can identify card art, and that's all you need to benefit following Tomaharu Saito on Twitter. He's one of the best deckbuilders of all time, and if not for a somewhat shady history he would easily be in the Magic Hall of Fame. This weekend he shared his 20th place GP Memphis deck shortly after losing his win and in.
Saito Black
Mono. Black. Humans.
The problem with Monoblack Aggro in Theros-Khans Standard has largely been that everything dies to Drown in Sorrow and Anger of the Gods. Enter Obelisk of Urd. It turns out that there are enough humans for the deck to just be tribal and to buff its creatures out of sweeper range.
Whether this deck is a real contender remains to be seen, but Obelisk of Urd definitely addresses a major weakness of previous iterations of Monoblack Aggro. Having 20th place at a GP being the deck's only showing certainly shows promise.
