new face of monoblack standard

can't get over the reprinting of phyrexian obliterator! get all the things that care about swamps and throw em in a deck!

3x despise, no more cawblade
2x dismember, kill lotus cobra, don't draw 2 of 'em
3x sign in blood, no phyrexian arena in this format..
3x nantuko shade, swamps!
3x go for the throat, instant speed removal for anything but wurmcoil
3x gatekeeper of malakir, too black not to
3x vampire nighthawk, trade w/ big stuff, gain me life, fly!
4x phyrexian obliterator, can't kill me without damage? you lose!
2x molten-tail masticore, reallyyy good w/ mimic vat, use it to get around upkeep cost
2x nightmare lash, swamps! fun with night hawks and obliterators!
2x mimic vat, do it again obliterator/nighthawk/not you gatekeeper/you nantuko shade!
2x precursor golem, hey mimic vat!
2x mindsludge, swamps!
2x corrupt, swamps!
2x grave titan, also mimic vat

survive the early turns by knocking threats out of their hand with despise, killing their early plays, or trading with their creatures with nighthawk or gatekeepers. rarely you'll be able to start pushing through damage with nantuko shade if you have an opponent that's scared to lose their creatrues.

save your instant speed kill for creatures that have sword of feast and faminine (cawblade), swap or sideboard in more as necessary. play your midrange evil threats like masticore or oblitreator, nightmare lash or precursor, they'll probably have an answer for it, expect these games to not wrap too quickly. key blowouts will be landing your mind sludges, or corrupts on big creatures/their face. reload with your sign in bloods, they shouldn't hurt too much b/c of nighthawk and corrupt. finish off the attrition war with a grave titan, a nantuko shade, or drop a mimic vat early and start to see things go really bad.

this deck can roll over to dedicated sligh type decks. jace decks and cawblades and valaukut is the main problem. add in hexmage (goes good with mimic vat) or hex parasite to deal with a jace crowd. side in extra instand speedkill/inquisition of koziek for cawblade. i would guess the valakut wood need life gain/tectonic edges to deal with valakut. ideally you land an early mimcvat then instantly kill their titan and valaukuts with throat and tectonic edgess.

go even crazier with abyssal persecutors + phyrexian arenas. add in sphere of suns to get belligerent turn three beasties. plays here involve hitting them with early hand disruption and leading them into a big sweep using tumble magnent, and cleaning up with marsh casualties, blacksun's zenith, life's end, and massacre wurm. massacre wurm of course awesome with mimic vat as well but this version would rely on creatures to defend yourself.  geth's verdict, dismember, and plain old go for the throat/doom blade. keep the corrupts and mind sludges, come in strong with non creature finishers like liliana vess, sorin markov, haunting echoes.

there's something to be said for planeswalkers decks sporting the proliferate removal.