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Focuses on using primarily only 1 creature and dominating. Pretty quick, and is excellent 1v1.
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Okay here's what I'd add and take and then I'll break it down afterwards, this is assuming you're cemented in G/B, although personally I would reccomend B/U for a loner deck. -1 Lumberknot -1 Harvester -2 Pit-Dweller -2 Guide -3 Prey Upon -3 Essence Harvest +2 Homicidal Seclusion +2 Predator's Gambit +1 Abundant Growth +3 Ranger's Guile +2 Mask of Avacyn +2 Go for the Throat Explanations; Lumberknot and Harvester: These go against the whole prospect of having one creature as they generally work better in a deck that aims to have more creatures out. I know they trigger off the opponents creatures aswell but they function better when they work with your own deck. Pit-Dweller: This is just generally a bad card and I wouldn't choose to run it in a deck unless it's based around stopping it going over to your opponent. Guide: This also goes against the prospect of only having one creature as it affects another one, meaning you have two. Best case scenario he buffs himself becoming a 2/2, which isn't really the sort of thing you want as your loner. Prey Upon: When you're playing back there's a tonne of a lot more kill spells that are nowhere near as situational as this, there's just need to risk not being able to play this when you need to when you could drop a Go for the Throat or something and do the job just as easy. Even Trajic Slip could do a better job here in my opinion. Essence Harvest: I just don't see the neccessity for this fairly average card in the deck. It doesn't seem to do anything amazing for you and takes up an offensive slot when you could probably use more stuff to stop your loner running into that kill spell. Seclusion and Gambit: These are both just amazing quality cards that need to be a 4 of in any loner deck, no more explanation needed. Abundant Growth: Just generally an awesome card that shouldn't be underestimated, can fix your mana to cast stuff like Griselbrand more easily. This is especially essential if you want to run only 19 land. Guile: This is one of them cards that is just a great way to dodge a kill spell or just edge a blocker and keep your loner alive. Mask: Gives hexproof which is an amazing attribute to give the only creature you have, making all their kill spells useless. Go for the Throat: This is your own awesome kill spell to get rid of that pesky blocker or the big flyer that's troubling you, removal is good when you're not going to have an army of guys to trade with stuff. I was also skeptical about Wild Defiance, it seems reasonable but if you're going to make all the changes I've suggested then I'd probably remove it for an Ascetism or something. With the amount of hexproof floating around you're not really going to be too worried about a damage spell and getting that extra 3 toughness, and although it works well with Terrifying Presence I think there are better options. Green Sun's Zenith could be a nice choice to root up that loner when you're in trouble. Ascetism could also be good to give what is essentially more hexproof, and bring back your loner if it gets into trouble. Anyway, whether you choose to take my advice or ignore it as complete garbage is up to you, although this is how I would modify the deck personally to gravitate more towards the theme specified. The deck looks promising and I look forward to seeing how it develops, good luck dude! :)
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You make valid points on each subject. The main reasoning for some of the cards that I have chosen, is to be only INN and above, since the next cycle is coming out making most of the sets outdated, (Dont want to waste my money on something that will only last a few months) Pit-Dwellers i'm still on the fend with. They're great aggro, and they are also removal bait. I have a few ways to give them counters too, so their undying won't take in effect. Guides, I just have them in there to buff my taskmasters for a minute, only to be sacrificed. They're there only to buff my main unit. (I might add bone splinters) I have the Masks of Avacyn and Ranger's guile on the sideboard, based on my opponents deck and the amount of removal they are adding. I like the Lumberknot due to the built in Hexproof, (if I did use sets before INN, I would go Thrun in a heartbeat). Harvester of Souls works well in combo with Revenge of the Hunted, as well as Killing Wave... and I dunno, I just like his art :D So far it works very very well. Only decks with heavy enchantment/artifact destruction really mess me up. Otherwise I knock 'em out pretty well. Typical game involved having a Demonic Taskmaster, with a Homicidal Seclusion out, (7/4) that got a +1/+1 counter from the guide, and also wearing Predator's Gambit, effectively making him a 10/6 intimidate/flyer. Get in a swing, and Essence Harvest makes it GG. Essence Harvest is truly great in my opinion, its a nice burn, and heal for only 3 mana! And my units are usually at least in the 5-9 ballpark due to homicidal. I really see amazing potential Blue/Black loner, i.e. INVISIBLE STALKER.... and all the counters/hexproof and what not are in there. But I want to try out Green for a bit, as I like to be a bit different, and not to mention this color combo is pretty cheap at the moment. :D
I really want to get my hands on an Elbrus blade, I feel it'd be an amazing addition.