Black devotion with support from green.
I chose to add green as it helps greatly against control the black decks biggest weakness.
Abrupt decay can get rid of D-spheres. Underworld connections (brimaz and spear of Heliod in some variants) and can't be countered.
Golgari charm can get rid of all those pesky 1/1's leap etch pumps out. Removes any enchantments. And regenerates creatures. Which is very nice after a board whipe.
In the side savage summoning makes my Gary's uncounted able and gives them flash. Example senario. I know my opponent has a verdict a counter spell and a sphinx in hand. I have a board state that would allow me to Gary for the win but I know they'll just sphinx in response or try and counter it. So I wait till there turn and they attempt to board whipe. In response I use summoning to flash in an uncounterable Gary and they may not have the mana to rev enough to survive (depending on how late it is in the game and how much mana they spent that turn).
mistvutter hydra is also a card that is excellent against control.
I took a variant of this to a PTq last week (worlds largest) and went 5-4. I came up against 7 control decks and 2 jund. I splashed white as I was anticipating a few mirror matches and felt this would give the edge. Afterwards I was thinking of ways to improve my control matchup and this is what I came up with all ratings and comments will be appreciated. As its the end of the season it will just be for fnm play and game day and my meta is very control and Argo dominated.
Oh the reason for the 3 life banes main is that it catches the decks it loves out as the expect it game 2/3 but never anticipate it game one. It gives you hand information. Potentially steals a guy. And against any non black deck it's a (virtually) unblock able attacker.
Also running 3 whips min aposed to the classic one as it is always nice to have on the board. It gives me life to keep me in the game. Allows me to get double value out of lifebanes (especially satisfying to rip 5 blood barons from hand against one opponent) If a creature is countered e.g. Gary or lifebanes I still get value. I've one a game before by devour fleshing myself to sack a Gary. At the end of my opponents turn to whip him back. For game.
