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Aggro-Control : Black excels at combining aggressive creatures with removal spells to control the battlefield while dealing steady damage

Outside of casual tables where anything goes, the only format which allows Channel is Vintage

There are four Summon creatures in the deck that you could essentially keep around forever with the right counter shuffling

We could stretch our sources and make it work, but "the villain that appeared four times in the 1990s" (looking at you Faade and Coldheart!) isn't the most compelling Magic card

There are plenty of other kinds of decks you can build and I cant list all of them, but these archetypes should be enough for you to understand what you can expect from other players and point you in the right direction to get started

Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life