Meanings
- not comparableMagic: The GatheringBeing a card which is black and no other colors.
- not comparableMagic: The GatheringBeing a deck composed of only black or colorless cards.
He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.
1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)2 more examples
"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 April 16, Daniel Gray, “Re: Some Type II strategy”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (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 3, Eric Taylor, “Re: To all the Jamie W. lovers”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)
Origin
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monoblack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monoblack
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