The deck brews keep on coming on the Core Set 20202 Standard, and for today we have an attempt to build the right Mono Black Midrange deck with components from the new set. The M20 card that prompted me of a Mono Color list was Dread Presence. This four-drop 3/3 creature just does the two major things needed in a deck: card advantage and spot removal.

I have found a decklist before that is mainly focused on the Control plan but I have thought that a midrange route of the build is also possible.

Creatures
3 Cavalier of Night
4 Dread Shade
4 Dread Presence
2 Dusk Legion Zealot
4 Kitesail Freebooter
2 Ravenous Chupacabra
4 Yarok’s Fenlurker

Spells
1 Arguel’s Blood Fast
3 Cast Down
2 Disfigure
1 Murder
1 The Elderspell
3 Vraska’s Contempt
2 Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Lands
23 Swamp
1 Cabal Stronghold

My creature lineup are mostly disruptive in both opponents’ hand and board. The Freebooters are for checking information on what they have to play at the moment while getting the right card whereas the Fenlurkers discards them and serves as mana dump for pumped damage in the late game. The Cavalier is your late fatty pseudo-finisher that which you can pitch your zealots or chupacabra to kill off opponents’ relevant creature. 

The number of chosen spells are for specific functions on certain situations. Of course, Liliana is your top curve which can also provide additional body via Zombie tokens and gives your creatures bonus draw when destroyed.

Aside from the Cavalier, there are no recurrence spell in the main deck at the moment but we can have it as sideboard card against control matchups. I forgot the card name but there is that one that returns a creature or planeswalker from your graveyard to your hand.

Let me know what you think of this list. Is this Standard viable or not? Comment them on the box below.