3ric, it's Simon. Here's a link to that video series I told you about on Friday. I think their list has a few differences than what you have here, but the principal is the same and is definitely worth the watch.http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11695
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It looks like you're somewhere in between an aggro deck and a ramp deck. Coolperson has sort of a point as well. Traditionally, having a lot of one-offs for the sake of answers is backed by having (generally) around 8 ways to tutor those things up, in order to keep it consistent. It looks like you're starting to do that with your green sun's, but just keep in mind that it is banned in modern. If you decide to go the ramp route, I would cut your swords, and maybe some of the smaller guys (not your mana dorks), and if you decide to lean more aggro, i'd add cards like strangleroot geist, the other two oozes, etc. and maybe loose a few ramp cards and a few big guys. For both decks, I think you should be mainboarding the one Bow, your green sun's (4 if you can), and 4 beast withins if you can... and 6 plated slagwurms
I think it's pretty similar to the one Frank Lapore featured in the video series. There were a handful of these floating around at Grand Prix Detroit - I'm pretty sure Dan had to fight one haha.
Well, I am sorry to have ruined your day and thanks for pointing out my duplicate, the change has been made. This is a MBC shell - control the battlefield, as well as your opponents hand in the early game, while getting equipment onto the battlefield until it is safe to bring Skit out to play. There are a handful of backup infect creatures that are capable of getting the quick win, just in case Skit's no longer an option, but as infect creatures are traditionally weaker/vulnerable, it is not always the most reliable. That's where the other non-infect creatures come in - all one man armies that, in theory, have the power to get the job done on their own (even quicker with all the equipment that should be floating around). This is not the most invested or quickest deck (people will usually begin complaining that Skit is your general before the game even starts anyways) but rather a more resilient shell only limited to cards I already own.
I would drop all extort creatures, rats, vampire interlopers, maybe your spectre's shroud if you're short on room. You may not end up needing the wrench minds either if you populate with scullers and more sin collectors. I would also add another mentor of the meek or two if you can help it. I don't mind geth's verdict, but I would only run one or two, since it's the most inconsistent of all your removal and can potentially be difficult to cast. If you can find dismember's I would try and add 2 over doomblades, but they can get a little expensive. Slightly more expensive options to consider adding would be Hero of the Bladehold (4 is ideal, but even a few will make this deck out of control for most), Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, and maybe 4 precinct captains (which I don't think are very expensive anyways).
It looks like you're trying to do three different things - Tokens, Extort and mono-black control. I think this has more of the heart of a modern tokens with hand disruption base to it (basically a budget version of an already successful modern deck that is mostly cheap cards anyways). Cards I would look at - Zealous persecution, Raise the Alarm, Tidehollow sculler, (More) Sin collector, Honor of the pure and Spectral Possession. If you just search for a current version of "BW Tokens (Modern)", you will find a beefed up version of what it looks like you're trying to do - which I would argue is still a control deck, just much quicker.
we're going to have to talk about this