1996 April 16, Daniel Gray, “Re: Some Type II strategy”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[1] (Usenet):
"The Black Problem" has two good, easy solutions-- the obvious one is Whirling Dervish, which no monoblack player can block, and can only be gotten rid of with Disks or Icys.
1996 June 5, The Brother's Kringle [username], “Re: An over looked card for all black decks?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[2] (Usenet):
The problem is, that the best monoblack decks use necropotence.
1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[3] (Usenet):
He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.
1998 February 21, Onix [username], “much more(perish)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[4] (Usenet):
In most of my weenie-removal-artefact based monoblack decks, perish seems not that much necesary.[sic]
1999 January 8, Theron Martin, “Re: Recurring Nightmare Yet Again”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[5] (Usenet):
Your request for something else more original to do with Recur reminds me of the monoblack deck I built during the Urza's Saga prerelease.
1999 May 3, Eric Taylor, “Re: To all the Jamie W. lovers”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[6] (Usenet):
You can talk to him all day about how good high tide is in extended, or how good necropotence is in a monoblack deck, but he will still never play it.
1999 May 30, BigHat2002 [username], “Re: Worst card ever”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[7] (Usenet):
Being a monoblack player, it is my experience that in terms of stuff for casting cost, Lost Soul is the absolute worst card.