I'm almost a half year introduced into the game myself. I'm starting to join wed modern tournaments and for awhile I've been using a few deck builders tool-boxes and have a pretty decent blue/black deck that currently mills/life-link but I've been working on a serious mana problem running about 10 swamps 8islands w/ a few multi color lands. I don't want milling to become of my hole deck so i'm considering creating a black zombie/big beastie and instead of counters be using cards such as doom-blade and or duress to get the upper hand on my opponents. I'm just wondering how I should go about a mono black deck w/o using blue control but still being able to control the pace of the game