Originally a Grixis vampire deck, then Edgar Markov came out and I wanted him in, but didn't want to cut out the (at the time) few but cool blue vampires. Since then they've bounced back and forth, so now all the non-black colors feel evenly represented.

Breya was initially a purely color identity based decision, but the addition of blood tokens has given her a lot more mechanical value now too. And I still love the flavor of having a powerful-personality human helm the deck, resisting the allure, but eventually succumbing to vampiric temptations (there are a couple of ways to make her a vampire).

Vampire Tribal. The vampire tribe has a substantial relationship with +1/+1 counters: Bloodthirst, gaining them for hitting players, getting them when creatures they hit die, etc. Marchesa will take this aspect of the tribe and crank it to a thematic 11; she even lets them ressurect if they drink blood this way. Marchesa's scheming, power grabbing machinations are also perfect for the soon-to-be scion of this vampire house. The deck does include several ways to complete Marchesa's ascension tovthe vampire ranks.

When the Commander 2016 product is released, if there's a R/U/B/W legend that is on-theme with the deck, it will transform to splash white. Then Vish Kal and Sorin can come home at last.

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-1 Temple of Deceit, +1 Shipwreck Marsh

-1 Scoured Barrens, +1 Raffine's Tower

-1 Opal Palace, +1 Voldaren Estate

-1 Rakush Heir, +1 Runo Stromkirk  Flip - This one is iffy, and I may pull Runo back out later, but he's a house head from Innistrad and seems really cool

-1 Vampire Nocturnus, +1 Henrika Domnathi  Flip - Vampire Nocturnus seems cool and looks awesome, but every time I've played it the effect is only active half the time while giving away information. Henrika's been fun in standard and I look forward to seeing how she does here. Her back side ability should also work at least as much as Nocturnus's did

-1 Blood Operative, +1 Dominating Vampire

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 2 years
Exclude colors G
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

18 - 0 Mythic Rares

57 - 0 Rares

9 - 0 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.59
Tokens Blood, Copy Clone, Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Thopter 1/1 U, Vampire 1/1 B, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink, Vampire 1/1 W, Vampire 2/2 B, Vampire Knight 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders Commander, commander ideas: vampires, Merchesa, ideas, Retired Decks
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