I was the lead designer of Tempest and I liked cantrips
There are also a couple of four-drop planeswalkers that are fine discard outlets Narset of the Ancient Way and Liliana, Waker of the Dead and Flamethrower Sonata on the back of Torrent Sculptor, but those feel less like active reasons to go down this road and more incidental pickups when youre already playing learn-Lesson packages
Mono Black Decklist 4 Necropotence 2 Bloodstained Mire 4 March of Wretched Sorrow 1 Demonic Tutor 4 Orcish Bowmasters 4 Dark Ritual 7 Swamp 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 The One Ring 4 Fatal Push 4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 Go for the Throat 1 Restless Cottage 3 Blooming Marsh 4 Woodland Cemetery 4 Polluted Delta 2 Tear Asunder 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator The Mono Black archetype has always been extremely flexible, focusing on control spells to gain the upper hand on the battlefield
Every aura has an enchant ability
The deck is fine once it has two mana but you need to get to that point and so you just have to play a lot of low powered ramp effects
Great versus Genesect/Virizion/Celebi, competitive with most other decks, but struggles at times