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Ohhh yeahhhh Orzhov life drain. I gotta say I love life drain decks, and in general I'm really happy with how this deck works, but any advice to improve it is always welcome.

Everything in the deck is pretty self explanatory. Thrull Parasite is a quick one drop for the extort and the ability to screw over planeswalkers.

Tithe Drinker is there for the extort and lifelink, Vizkopa Guildmage for the guiildmage + Exquisite Blood combo, and Vampire Nighthawk, because what self respecting black deck wouldn't have this beast?

To be or not to be? That's what you gotta wonder when Desecration Demon is swinging at you for 6 damage. I found I was getting overwhelmed with decks that used a lot of creatures and King lear is a form of removal all on his own when he's not killing everything.

Crypt Ghast along with Increasing Ambition is what really makes this deck work. I've managed to put out a Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts turn 5, or completely reverse the game with Debt to the Deathless

Increasing Ambition is in the deck to search for an early crypt ghast, or if one is already on the field, I'd use it for a teysa or DtD.

Blind Obedience is early extort, and helps with the stall game, letting me soak up some extra blood in the beginning.

Fiend Hunter and Oblivion Ring are more removal. Hunter was initially Etheral Armor but lack of removal was becoming a problem so I subbed the former in instead.

So what do you all think?

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So I cleaned up at FNM tonight for the most part coming in second place! I almost had the guy I was playing for the first spot, but he abrupt decayed my vozkopa guildmage before I could activate my infinite blood combo :(

Game 1 was against a budget Boros deck. King lear and vampire nighthawk just straight out wrecked him

Game 2 was against a Dimir mill deck. Round 1 I managed to pull of an Infinite blood combo after he had Lazav, Dimir Mastermind clone a King lear he milled, than round 2 I sideboarded in 2x Pithing Needle and used em on Lazav and Mirko Vosk, and won with a pumped up debt to the debtless

Game 3 was against the R/U/B/ deck from the last FNM. First round the poor guy got severely mana-screwed.. it finished up round 5 with basic agro. Round 2 I sideboarded in 2x pithing needles to nullify his sire and jace, mind adept and than used an infinite blood combo on him ftw.

Game 4 was toughhh. The dude was using a W/G/B token deck, and had 4 Voice of Resurgence :S First round was over extremely quickly. He dropped temple garden and arbor elf, than got out 2 voices and a loxodon smighter by round 4 and just blew me away. Round 2 I got lucky and drew all of my O-rings and fiend hunters relatively early, and exiled his creatures before they became to big a problem. Tithe drinker and king lear took care of the rest. Round 3 went much the same as round 1, except I got a crypt ghast, vizkopa guildmage and exquisite blood onto the field. I nearly activated Infinite blood combo, but he abrupt decayed the guildmage, and pretty much killed me the turn after -_-

Over all I think the deck is working great!

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Date added 11 years
Last updated 11 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

15 - 7 Rares

18 - 4 Uncommons

3 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.31
Tokens Spirit 1/1 WB
Folders Deck Ideas, rw
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