This weekend I had a Black Celebration playing some very old school mono-black decks at Modern FNM and a weekend Tiny Leaders event. Both events had just over 12 players.
Modern: Mono-black control, 4-0
4 Duress
4 Distress
1 Memoricide
1 Mind Sludge
2 Disfigure
2 Victim of Night
1 Devour Flesh
2 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Eradicate
2 Mutilate
4 Sign in Blood
4 Read the Bones
2 Diabolic Tutor
1 Elixir of Immortality
2 Steel Hellkite
2 Sorin's Vengeance
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Bojuka Bog
23 Swamps
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Witchbane Orb
3 Bottle Gnomes
1 Devour Flesh
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Barter in Blood
1 Curse of Death's Hold
3 Nantuko Shade
3 Rain of Tears
This is a very old-fashioned style of Mono-black control. Use discard spells to pick apart your opponent's hand, removal to stay alive, and card drawing to slowly pull ahead on resources until you can land a Sorin's Vengeance to solidify your position or Steel Hellkite to wipe your opponent's stuff and finish them off. With 8 point-discard spells and a Mind Sludge you'll draw dead discard as the game goes on but the plan is that the extra cards will make up for that. Though you always want to check their hand before playing a Hellkite if you can.
I beat a competitive burn deck 2-1, a casual burn deck 2-0, Hexproof 2-1, and BW tokens 2-1 to finish 4-0.
Tiny Leaders: Kuon, Ogre Ascendant / Pox, 3-1-1
Kuon, Ogre Ascendant
Epochrasite
Reassembling Skeleton
Guardian Idol
Chimeric Idol
Nether Spirit
Chimeric Mass
Cursed Scroll
Executioner's Capsule
Phyrexian Furnace
Sun Droplet
Tsabo's Web
Powder Keg
Ratchet Bomb
Raven's Crime
Funeral Charm
Hymm to Tourach
Stupor
Innocent Blood
Smother
Diabolic Edict
Infest
Forced March
Smallpox
POX
DEATH CLOUD
Skeletal Scrying
Shred Memories
Syphon Life
Armillary Sphere
Charcoal Diamond
Pristine Talisman
17 Swamps
Duress
Scepter of Fugue
Disrupting Scepter
Dragon's Claw
Elixir of Immortality
Thran Foundry
Sickening Dreams
Engineered Plague
Rancid Earth
Gloom
The idea behind this deck (if it's not obvious) is that all of your creatures are immune to your own mass removal, either because they're not creatures at the time (such as Chimeric Idol) or they re-animate themselves in some way. So you just Pox or Death Cloud away everybody resources and clear up with whatever you have left.
This deck is definitely mis-built as an earlier draft contained The Rack and Shrieking Affliction, and some cards (Raven's Crime, Funeral Charm) don't really make sense in their absence and should be replaced (I've gone for Scrabbling Claws and Chainer's Edict).
I'm not certain if Kuon is the best Leader for this deck. Whilst his ability is great if you can flip him, that's never easy and basically not possible against some decks. Running either Kiku, Night's Flower or Toshiro Umezawa seems possible with only slight alterations to the list (more discard to protect Kiku, more instants for Toshiro).
I beat Elves, Zombies, Geist of St Traft, and then had a draw and a loss against Shu Yun.
