Best Black Cards From Mirrodin Through Alara

Hello cubers!

I've got a question for y'all, especially the people who have been cubing for a long time.

Right now, I've got a 360 old border cube using cards from Alpha through Scourge. I'm currently working on a 180 card "expansion" to the cube that contains cards from Mirrodin block through Alara block; effectively anything up until the M10 rules change.

While it's going pretty well overall, one issue that I'm having is identifying worthwhile black cards from this time period; there seem to be less immediate standout cards in black than there are in other colors.

My current thoughts on includes from this era are as follows:

**Definitely cubeworthy:**

* \[\[Dark Confidant\]\] * \[\[Oona's Prowler\]\] * \[\[Hand of Cruelty\]\] * \[\[Fleshbag Marauder\]\] * \[\[Shriekmaw\]\] * \[\[Kokusho\]\] * \[\[Ink-Eyes\]\] * \[\[Liliana Vess\]\] * \[\[Bitterblossom\]\] * \[\[Thoughtseize\]\] * \[\[Night's Whisper\]\] * \[\[Damnation\]\]

**Probably cubeworthy:**

* \[\[Plagued Rusalka\]\] * \[\[Ogre Marauder\]\] * \[\[Tombstalker\]\] * \[\[Slaughter Pact\]\] * \[\[Sickening Shoal\]\] * \[\[Death Cloud\]\] * \[\[Profane Command\]\] * \[\[Smallpox\]\]

**Maybe cubeworthy:**

* \[\[Dunerider Outlaw\]\] * \[\[Big Game Hunter\]\] * \[\[Marsh Flitter\]\] * \[\[Sudden Spoiling\]\] * \[\[Dread Return\]\]

For reference, since I don't have the contents of my old border cube online at the moment, the primary things it does in the current cube are a disruptive aggressive deck (black's one drops are pretty abysmal after Carnophage and Sarcomancy but it has really solid two drops and can back them up with a bevy of kill spells, discard, and land destruction) and a heavy amount of support for reanimator which seems like one of the strongest things black does in an old border environment.

I'm curious to hear what people's opinions are on the best black cards from this snapshot of Magic's history, *especially* if anyone was cubing at the time and has personal experience with the kind of stuff cubes were running back then.