This deck is built around building smaller vampires up through damage to enemy players and other Vampire buffing creatures like Adaptive Automaton and
Lord of Lineage
. The linchpin of Stromkirk Captain giving everything first strike is what makes this deck dangerous topped off by prolific flyers like
Falkenrath Marauders
and Vampire Nighthawk. I finish off the deck with more build potential in Curse of Stalked Prey/Rakish Heir and target creature removal of Doom Blade and Feast of Blood.
This deck had little answer playing against token decks and some issues with Burn/Control. For those, I sideboarded Black Sun's Zenith, Blood Seeker and Ratchet Bomb. To cope with people nuking my powerful creatures with spells I boarded Duress and Disentomb. To help with indestructible creatures, I added Tragic Slip just for fun.
Ideally, the start for this deck plays as follows:
Turn one: Stromkirk Noble
Turn Two: Curse of Stalked Prey. Swing with the Noble and if not blocked, he builds to a 3/3.
Turn Three: At this point, you can put out a Stromkirk Captain or Adaptive Automaton to make the Noble a 4/4 before swinging. Depending on what blockers your opponent can muster by turn three, you could be swinging for 4 that builds to a 6/6, possibly with First Strike.
Turn Four and beyond: At this point, the flyers will win you the game unless your opponent still has no blockers or removal. The best play I've see is to play Bloodline Keeper
on turn four. That leads in optimally to play an Automaton, Captain, or some other vampire on turn five, then transform into
Lord of Lineage
.
Any and all suggestions and comments are welcome.
