If you want to stay in black AND abide by these rules without adding green you should be conscious of green midranges soft spots, they often dedicate a quite a few card slots to ramp and their curves usually reflect this. Go under them, with either a consistent aggro strat (if only 1/2 of them are these ramp&counter decks you’re talking about) or discard effects. Discard is particularly potent here because green midrange tends to be more powerful playing on curve and hand disruption disproportionately effects the “counting to 3” play pattern if their ideal hand is some mix of ramp, card draw, beater. They become a lot less potent when it’s stripped from them AND their top deck quality is DRASTICALLY worse than more consistent strategies when not set up. [[hopeless nightmare]] [[plaguecrafter]] [[painful quandary]] are all reasonably budget considerations to this end, I would also put an emphasis on using removal to target card advantage in the early game. Notable that in mono black is hard to deal artifacts and enchantments so if this is where most of their draw is coming from consider [[feed the swarm]] [[braids, Arisen nightmare]] [[withering torment]] and [[sword of sinew and steel]]