Life total is the game plan here, the whole reason the deck exists.
Removal, reanimation, and sacrifice, often paid for in life or cards rather than mana alone. "Reanimator," an EDHREC-tracked deck-building term, is most associated with this color alone.
Mono-Black Lifegain
32%(674 games, 181 decks)
Cards That Overperform in Lifegain
Not yet broken out by color identity specifically — these numbers are for Lifegain across Commander as a whole.