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My goal for this deck was to make it more than just a vampire-themed tribal aggro deck. Instead, the deck itself is vampiric. It manipulates you, it bleeds you, it drains your life until you are weak enough for the final strike.

Let's meet the cast.

Vampire Nocturnus is my aggressive win condition. Get him out and suddenly even your Viscera Seers are 3/2 flyers. And at 4 mana you can get him out surprisingly early. What a horrible night to have a curse.

Olivia Voldaren adds another control element and is good for longer matches. If you have nothing else to do you can sink mana into her to buff her up and steal your opponent's creatures. Or just kill them outright.

Bloodghast + Viscera Seer and Bloodghast + Kalastria Highborn are the secondary win condition. Together the let you sac your creatures and Scry to activate Vampire Nocturnus 's effect while leeching your opponent's life. But wait, there's more! Bloodghast + Viscera Seer means as long as you have a land to play, you can sac -> scry -> landfall. Free scry and a steady supply of sacrifices for Kalastria Highborn . And if your opponent has 10 or less life, Bloodghast gets haste so it's like he never even left.

Bloodghast - This guy's job is to just swing. Swing all the time. Then die then swing more. Even if they chump block it feeds the Highborn and you can just bring him right back. He is the fuel for the Kalastria Highborn + Viscera Seer sac-scry-leech engine.

Gatekeeper of Malakir is basically a 3 CMC sorcery speed removal spell that puts a 2/2 vampire token into play. A good early game blocker and becomes a 4/3 flyer with Nocturnus.

Inquisition of Kozilek lets you remove threats before they get a chance to enter the battlefield,.

Dismember is effectively a 1-mana kill spell and Termiante hits almost everything else.

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I'm going to experiment with making this BR instead of mono-black. Blood Artist and Nighthawk are out (they weren't really pulling their weight), Stromkirk Captain and Olivia Voldaren are in. Stromkirk brings me up to 8 lords, and Olivia adds another control element to the board and can help with longer match ups.

I'm going to avoid running Bolts for now a) for Nocturnus and b) because my playgroup is pretty fond of un-Boltable creatures (Obliterators, Brimaz, etc).

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Date added 9 years
Last updated 5 years
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This deck is Modern legal.

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8 - 0 Mythic Rares

20 - 11 Rares

10 - 4 Uncommons

4 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 1.79
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