Mardu Vampires

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (32)

• 1x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Captivating Vampire
• 1x Champion of Dusk
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 1x Forerunner of the Legion
• 1x Gifted Aetherborn
• 1x Indulgent Aristocrat
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory *list*
• 1x Legion Lieutenant
• 1x Malakir Bloodwitch
• 1x Markov Blademaster
• 1x Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Olivia, Mobilized for War
• 1x Olivia's Bloodsworn
• 1x Patron of the Vein
• 1x Rakish Heir
• 1x Shadow Alley Denizen
• 1x Stromkirk Captain
• 1x Stromkirk Occultist
• 1x Tithe Drinker
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Land (36)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 5x Plains
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Vault of the Archangel

Instant (9)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Crackling Doom
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Make a Stand
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Shared Animosity
• 1x True Conviction

Sorcery (5)

• 1x By Force
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Read the Bones

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Creature (1)

• 1x Olivia Voldaren

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Reconnaissance

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Playing with the deck

Sunforger

The Sunforger package should be able to deal with a variety of situations and threats.

Deal with any non-land permanent: Utter End | Anguished Unmaking

Deal with creatures: Path to Exile | Swords to Plowshares | Crackling Doom

Tutor for an enchantment: Enlightened Tutor

Boardwipe protection: Teferi's Protection | Make a Stand | Boros Charm

Enlightened Tutor and Enchantment choices

Enlightened Tutor can find us ramp and card draw early and graveyard recursion and buffs to our team late.

Early Game

You'll want either Phyrexian Arena to start getting extra cards out of it as soon as possible, or Sol Ring to accelerate mana production.

Mid game to Late game

Mid game choices are dependent on the board state and what you need for your particular situation moreso than early game. Having a decent number of threats out compared to early game means that Shared Animosity or Cover of Darkness get better here. Phyrexian Arena and Outpost Siege are still good if you expect the game to go longer. "Recursion" options include Palace Siege and Phyrexian Reclamation which can be good after recovering from board wipes or giving you a bit of redundancy when one is cast.

True Conviction is a bit of a pet card but could be considered as a flex slot. This card can win the game out of almost nowhere but you will need a moderately sized board for it to be effective.

Dealing with Boardwipes

Being a creature based aggro deck boardwipes set the gameplan back quite a bit. The best way to deal with boardwipes is to not over extend.

Pre-boardwipe

The next best ways of dealing with boardwipes are to try and negate their effects with spells. For this we have, in order of best to worst, Boros Charm, Teferi's Protection, and Make a Stand.

Boros Charm is best simply because it's the cheapest to cast. If you're worried about being overextended you've probably cast a creature already this turn, so only needing to leave up 2 to cast Boros Charm is great.

Teferi's Protection will not only save you from damage and destruction based wipes, but it will save us from exile effects too. It has the added benefit of saving us from things like Exsanguinate but costing 3 over

Boros Charm's 2 is a big deal.

Make a Stand is fine, in some rare situations you can use it for the buff to win combats or take somebody out of the game.

Post-boardwipe

Phyrexian Reclamation and Palace Siege are both in the 99 to give us a bit of resilience to our gameplan of having loads of buffed vampires on the table. Scoop them out of the yard and regurgitate them all over the table again, forever. Or until someone draws enchantment removal. Bloodline Necromancer reanimates a creature for us for "free". You'll only get one vampire token from Edgar's eminence though.

Note that although Blood Baron of Vizkopa has protection from black, it can still be targeted by enchantments or creatures while in the graveyard since the problack is only valid while it exists on the battlefield.

Tactics

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Previous changes and updates (This is a mess)

Newest Change Todo list

Remove As many double red cards as possible, consider swapping out Disrupt Decorum, Markov Blademaster and Bloodsworn Steward.

(* indicates the card has been shipped)

Ambition's Cost -> Champion of Dusk*

Bishop of Rebirth -> Twilight Prophet*

Dark Impostor -> Olivia's Bloodsworn*

Door of Destinies -> Falkenrath Aristocrat*

Blood Artist -> Gifted Aetherborn*

Heirloom Blade -> Sunforger*

Bloodlord of Vaasgoth -> Legion Lieutenant*

Kheru Mind-Eater -> Mirror Entity*

Pawn of Ulamog -> Forerunner of the Legion*

Underworld Connections -> Phyrexian Arena*

Anowon, the Ruin Sage -> Dusk Legion Zealot*

Bloodsworn Steward -> Vampire Hexmage*

Falkenrath Noble - > Bloodline Keeper  *

Blind Obedience -> Cover of Darkness*

Mortify -> Utter End*

Return to Dust -> Shared Animosity*

Mathas, Fiend Seeker -> Stromkirk Occultist*

Disrupt Decorum -> Enlightened Tutor

Mana Base Changes Todo List

Akoum Refuge -> Dragonskull Summit*

Evolving Wilds -> A basic*

Forsaken Sanctuary -> Caves of Koilos*

Scoured Barrens -> Isolated Chapel*

Stone Quarry -> Battlefield Forge*

Boros Garrison -> Clifftop Retreat*

Orzhov Basilica -> Tainted Field*

Rakdos Carnarium -> Smoldering Marsh*

Urborg Volcano -> Foreboding Ruins*

Rakdos Guildgate -> Mountain

Bloodfell Caves ->

Bojuka Bog -> Swamp

Old Changes - Done

Creatures

Vein Drinker -> Bishop of Rebirth

Sangromancer -> Voldaren Pariah  

Mountain -> Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle

Licia, Sanguine Tribune -> Olivia, Mobilized for War

Kheru Mind-Eater - > Mirror Entity

Instants and Sorceries

Kindred Charge -> Boros Charm

Skeletal Scrying -> Painful Truths

Fell the Mighty -> Make a Stand

Merciless Eviction -> Kindred Dominance

New Blood -> Path to Exile

Enchantments and Artifacts

Obelisk of Urd -> Palace Siege

Damnable Pact -> Vanquisher's Banner

Black Market -> Phyrexian Reclamation

Well of Lost Dreams -> Dolmen Gate

Sanguine Bond -> Iroas, God of Victory

Lands

Wind-Scarred Crag -> Vault of the Archangel

Orzhov Guildgate -> Temple of Silence

Boros Guildgate -> Temple of Triumph

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	City's Blessing, Vampire 1/1 B, Vampire 1/1 W, Vampire 2/2 B