Well, for the mana problems, maybe you could play Celestial Dawn to produce coloured mana. Since it's only 3cc, you could easily cast it early in the game.

Celestial Dawn
{W}{W}
Enchantment
Nonland cards you own that aren't in play, spells you control, and nonland permanents you control are white. Lands you control are Plains. Spells and abilities you control produce white mana instead of any other color. You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color.

Well, I might as well make a post here as I've been lurking for the last couple of days.

Name: Remy Suen
Age: 19
Favourite Colour: Black
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Playing Since: Onslaught
#TheManaDrain Handle: Xirzen

I started playing about two and a half years ago when our school started a Magic club. My first deck was a the GR precon from Odyssey block. I later ran an elf deck, and then a black control. I have a blue control deck now with a full set of drains and forces with three morphlings. I don't have any fetchlands though, as strange as that may seem. I'm currently getting the pieces together to play Psychatog.