The Black Death

this is my type 2 black control deck that i use in tournies. it has the popular basal sliver nether traitor hivestone infinite black mana combo, which goes very well with consume spirit profane command grave pact. what's that combo? have a hivestone, a basal sliver, and two nether traitors out. sac one nether traitor for 2 black mana then sac the other for the same. use one of those floating blacks to bring back the first then repeat the cycle however many times you want. if you have grave pact in play they'll be losing creatures like mad and if not, just drain them to death with profane command or consume spirit. as well the warhammer goes nicely with nether traitor for some constant 4 hits with life gain. festering goblin as the good turn one creature, knight of dusk for a little agro and dread for a heavy hitter with a nice ability. vess can do a number of things really. you can make them discard until she has 9 loyalty and take their creatures, or you can just keep putting cards on top of your library to pop off the infinite combo. everything else is there to simply annoy, stall, or kill until you can get out a suitable win condition. sideboard is for alternate ways of stalling or killing. edit #1: put shimian specter main board and grave pact side board. specter helped a lot more then the pact. edit #2: added a single howltooth hollow for shimian and liliana to work for. edit #3: took out the knight of dusks for bitter ordeal. now i can remove their entire library from the game by sacing the nether traitors x number of times and letting gravestorm hammer out their library. edit #4: dropped down to 3 traitors and added one maralen for one of those emergency win situations. edit #4: took out maralen for nether traitor, she wasn't as helpful as i thought. replaced bitter ordeals with dusk urchins, card draw is nice.