Thanks for all the help, guys. I'll keep working on making it better. Those are some good suggestions for cards.

Well, I played the current version here at home, and got really mana-hosed, so nothing worked right. I'm chalking it up to a bad shuffle; 13 turns until I drew the next land. I had Maze of Ith out and a non-basic that produced black. So, yeah, bad game. I took the draw because I thought I'd get the reanimator going by discarding some fatties, but that didn't even take off.

I've got some of the mentioned cards above on order, so I'll be making some changes and hopefully smoothing some things out.

I run a mono-black EDH deck, Vermintide (EDH Rats), and I have found myself using my tutors to grab Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx more and more often, as the mana ramp it gives me turns out to be much better than anything offensive I could tutor for at the time.
That combined with Liliana of the Dark Realms and/or Crypt Ghast have really helped my deck take off.
I know you're running the Ghast, and the others are in your maybe board, but I thought I'd cast another vote for them being added!

Thanks for the reply and suggestions, Panzerforge. I've ordered a few of the cards in my maybeboard, and will be adding them a few at a time. I will be getting Nykthos eventually and Liliana. She's just too good. I have Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth coming. I do have some tutors I could run, but how many should I run, and how much should I cut? I'm not playing at my local game store, just with my kids at home, so getting nasty early isn't necessarily the idea, but I do like consistency, so I won't balk at adding a few, either. The more I play it, the more I'll look at the balance I have and see what works.

Thanks again for the comments. I'll be playing it again soon!

Ok, a few more updates have been made. In are Blanket of Night and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. Also in are Trailblazer's Boots and Reiver Demon, along with a few others.

Oh yeah, Filth also added.

Cool deck! I'm surprised you're not running Hero's Blade since it's a voltron-y deck and you've got a bunch of legendaries already.

Sanitarium Skeleton would give you something to pitch over and over again, but 1B for +1/+1 may not be good enough.

Carrionetteis a neat way to get a secondary removal spell, but you have to wait until someone's tapped out or can't afford to spend the mana(good way to force blue players to dump a counterspell's worth of mana)

Instead of Dauthi Trapper, you could go Dauthi Embrace, which lets you do more with it IMO, though you lose the creature.

Underworld Connections gives you safer on-demand card draw vs. Phyrexian arena, but it costs you a land tap in return. Might be worth it since you have ways to cheat in cards anyway.

Blessing of Leeches is one of my favorite budget black protections auras- free regeneration is amazing.

Looks fun! I've actually been meaning to build a Volrath deck, I might take some stuff from this :D

Snacrifice, thank you for the suggestions, and the upvote. :) I like the suggestion for Hero's Blade, so I'll consider adding it in and seeing how it performs. The reason I'm not running a lot of cards is mainly because I don't know the exist. I played heavily several years ago (I started trailing off during the Kamigawa cycle), and have recently got back in. EDH wasn't really talked about then, but I'd heard a little about it from folks who had played it before it was a "thing." Now, its the only format I'm really playing, but I'm relearning what's out there. I missed about 10 years worth of rotations, I think.

Thanks again for chiming in, I really appreciate it!

I am running both Dauthi Embrace and Dauthi Trapper right now, but when it comes time to sub new things in, I think taking out the trapper is how I'll go. All the stuff in the Maybeboard is a direction I'm trying to go, slowly but surely.

Ok, updates coming. I've placed a card order, and this is what I have coming in:Dread, Graveborn Muse, Liliana of the Dark Realms, In Garruk's Wake, Palace Siege, and two good lands, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Vesuva. I decided to splurge just a little bit in the hopes of pushing this deck's performance up. I've always liked playing black, and Volrath is a lot of fun as a commander, so I'm going to make it worth while.

The lands will be easy to sub in, but the others I will take any suggestions on. In Garruk's Wake will take the place of Forced March. I'm thinking Gravedigger might get cut as well, as I have more than enough graveyard bounce spells, I think.

Comments and suggestions are welcome, please!

Ok, changes made: In Garruk's Wake in, Forced March out. Palace Siege in, Macabre Waltz out. Liliana of the Dark Realms, Dread, and Graveborn Muse are in, and out go Death Denied, Dutiful Return, and Foul Renewal. Lands in are Vesuva and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for Subterranean Hangar and a Swamp.

That's where Volrath stands for now. I think I will be adding a Thespian's Stage in the future, as well, and I will keep looking into the other suggestions the more I play it and see how it works out. I hope that I haven't pushed my mana curve too high for it to be consistent.

If you think I should have subbed something different, please offer up more suggestions!

Its been a while since I've tinkered with this deck. I plan to add Caged Sun, along with the other artifact like it for mana ramp. I think I'll be changing out some of the equipment, too, perhaps adding Whispersilk Cloak for more evasion for Commander damage.