Vampires V3

Commander / EDH Counters Tribal Vampires

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Creature (26)

• 1x Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• 1x Bishop of the Bloodstained
• 1x Bloodcrazed Paladin
• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Bloodlord of Vaasgoth
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Captivating Vampire
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Forerunner of the Legion
• 1x Gifted Aetherborn
• 1x Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
• 1x Legion Lieutenant
• 1x Malakir Bloodwitch
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Patron of the Vein
• 1x Sanctum Seeker
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Stromkirk Captain
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Shared Animosity
• 1x Underworld Connections

Land (35)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 3x Plains
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg Volcano
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windbrisk Heights

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x New Blood

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (5)

• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Safe Passage
• 1x Teferi's Protection

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Creature (10)

• 1x Falkenrath Gorger
• 2x Forerunner of the Legion
• 2x Legion Lieutenant
• 1x Martyr of Dusk
• 1x Sadistic Skymarcher
• 1x Skymarcher Aspirant
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vicious Conquistador

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Blood Sun
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 2x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Radiant Destiny
• 1x Righteous Aura

Artifact (3)

• 1x Azor's Gateway  ^Flip
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x The Immortal Sun

Land (6)

• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 2x Windbrisk Heights

Instant (1)

• 1x Vona's Hunger

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This is my third round of upgrades to my Edgar Markov EDH Pre-constructed deck. The main goal of the deck is to use Edgar Markov's eminence ability to get lots of vampires on the battlefield. From there I enhance them with ramp, lifelink, unblockable, vigilance, etc and swing for damage aggressively.

Land

The deck is mostly using the precon lands for now, I probably need to upgrade here next. With the modifications I have made focus mostly on black, some on white, and red is pretty much splashed. I reduced the mountains a bit to account for this.

Mana Ramp

The deck is mostly using the precon mana rocks. Black Market has proved to be game winning good since there will be a lot of creatures dying over the course of a game. It is not uncommon to get an additional 20-30 mana for free each turn late in the game. Caged Sun can double your black mana lands can produce. Azor's Gateway  /Sanctum of the Sun is a new addition that can give you mana equal to your life total.

Card Draw

I am up to a healthy 10 sources of card draw in the deck now which keeps your had full through the game. State of Ancestry is a stand out champ allowing you to discard your hand and draw cards equal to the number of creatures you control. I have drawn 20 cards before due to this and with all the mana you are floating at that point its usually game over.Skull clamp lets you sack 1/1 tokens to draw a card, which is handy early game. The rest of the draw spells are the typical black pay life for cards.Necropotence and Phyrexian Arena Allow us to pay life to draw cards

Creatures

I run 25 significantly upgraded vampires in this deck. I favored ones with high value that have other abilities on them like creature ramp, removal, and stealing opponent's creatures. I have pulled the mana curve down on them a bit over time. It may need to get a bit lower yet.

A few of my favorites include:

• Malakir Bloodwitch causes each opponent to lose life equal to the number of vampires you control
• Sanctum Seeker deals 1 damage to opponents for each attacking vampire
• Necropolis Regent Puts +1/+1 counters on each creature equal to the combat damage it deals! Thats right it doubles the power and toughness of each vampire that connects with an opponent
• Bloodlord of Vaasgoth gives creatures we cast +3/+3 if we dealt damage this turn
• Vampire Hexmage is planeswalker removal
• Anowon, the Ruin Sage causes our opponent to sacrifice a creature on of each of our upkeeps on a strong body
• Vampire Nighthawk and Gifted Aetherborn give us low mana death touch

Targeted Removal

This deck uses a few removal spells and lot of abilities that hang off of creatures for removal since we are trying to get vampires out as consistently as possible

Board Wipes

Mostly stock wipes, Kindred Dominance was a nice addition for a single sided wipe. Sides, Undead Vizier provides some wipe on a body.

Enhancers

This is where this deck gets really fun and wins games! Lots of mana, lots of card draw, lots of creatures on the board. This deck delivers on augmenting this position.

• Shared Animosity This card is absolutely bonkers. It gives each vampire +1/+0 for each other attacking vampire. If you have 5 1/1's attacking they become 6/6's when they attack!
• Coat of Arms gives each vampire +1/+1 for each other vampire on the board
• Anointed Procession doubles our token generation
• Door of Destinies gives a +1/+1 equal to the number of vampires cast
• Captivating Vampire pumps the team and lets us steal opponent's creatures
• Akroma's Memorial gives all our vampires flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red. Seriously this card is awesome

Enablers

What happens if it all doesn't go to plan you may ask. The deck packs answers

• Defiant Bloodlord, Cliffhaven Vampire, Exquisite Blood, and Sanguine Bond provide an alternate win 2 card combo that can save us.
• Bishop of the Bloodstained can win the game without requiring combat
• Mastermind's Acquisition and Sidisi, Undead Vizier let us tutor for whatever we need-Butcher of Malakir and Dictate of Erebos can make our opponents think twice about killing our creatures-Safe Passage, Dawn Charm, and Teferi's Protection provide us with fog effects preventing all damage when we need it and even a counter spell in -Bloodcrazed Paladin Can give us game winning advantage after a board wipe-New Blood and Captivating Vampire allow us to steal our opponents best creatures including their commander-Bloodline Necromancer lets us return a vampire from the graveyard to the battlefield-Exsanguinate and Damnable Pact are ways to pump all that extra mana into an alternate win condition outside of combat

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	City's Blessing, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Vampire 1/1 B, Vampire 2/2 B, Vampire */* B
Folders	Owned EDH