1997 August 12, Manuel Bevand, “Green's Back!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[1] (Usenet):
If you're facing a monoblue or monoblack deck, dervishes or boas will take the opponent down, and the "boost spells" will allow them to survive quicksands (all monocolored decks have some quicksands).
1997 October 1, Chris Byler, “Re: Silly magic players”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[2] (Usenet):
Pit Trap is better, even for monoblue decks.
1997 October 8, Paul Miller, “Re: Abeyance Neutered”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[3] (Usenet):
Stasis, by itself, is an alright card... decent for stalling in a monoblue deck (just trust me on this one), and it gives a really good ability, shutting down all untapping.
1998 February 13, Gus, “Re: Fog Elemental - deck idea?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[4] (Usenet):
I saw a guy play a monoblue deck with lots of counters, FE's, Seers, and Ophids. (4 Ophids - staple for monoblue) He was drawing cards like there was no tomorrow, and that is, as we all know, a sure way to win.
1998 March 13, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, “Re: It's time to Ban Perish”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[5] (Usenet):
still, scragnoth pretty much spells death for a monoblue player.
1998 September 16, Giles C Hjort-Tyson, “Thoughts on current decks.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[6] (Usenet):
I had an intersting[sic] conversation tonight, with someone who said that there are only 3 monoblue decks that are tournment[sic] viable.
1998 October 7, Michael Aten, “You'll have to excuse my friend...he's a little slow”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[7] (Usenet):
Or a monoblue deck that outdraws it regardless of how many Duresses you draw?
2000 December 14, Jonathan Mellette, “CounterSliver vs. Trix...”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[8] (Usenet):
I've been playing Trix since I started fooling around with the Illusions/Donate combo in a monoblue deck, […]
2002 January 2, Avenging Angel [username], “Thoughts on current decks.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy[9] (Usenet):
The deck I'm building is a monoblue counter/bouncer control deck.