Blood Transfusion (creatureless control)

Modern* Combo Control Creatureless Lifegain Mono-Black

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Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Sorin Markov

Land (25)

• 4x Radiant Fountain
• 21x Swamp

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Sanguine Bond

Artifact (9)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 4x Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• 3x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Instant (14)

• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 4x Sorin's Thirst
• 3x Tragic Slip
• 3x Tribute to Hunger
• 3x Vendetta

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Dark Petition
• 3x Mutilate
• 3x Sign in Blood
• 1x Sorin's Vengeance

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Sideboard

Enchantment (3)

• 3x Painful Quandary

Instant (7)

• 2x Bile Blight
• 3x Dash Hopes
• 2x Suffer the Past

Sorcery (5)

• 3x Duress
• 2x Infinite Obliteration

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Maybeboard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Vampiric Link

Artifact (3)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Prism Ring
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Instant (10)

• 1x Bile Blight
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Needlebite Trap
• 1x Shadowfeed
• 1x Suffer the Past
• 4x Vendetta

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Alms of the Vein
• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Dark Petition

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I love vampires so much I thought I'd make a vampire deck without any vampires in it. The result? Blood Transfusion!

This deck is a creatureless control/denial powerhouse that wins either by flipping one or more copies of Chalice of Life   or by playing one or more Sanguine Bond. It has the means to deny, destroy, or sacrifice your opponent's creatures on every turn, frequently gaining you life in the process, which in turn fuels your Chalices or Bonds.

Key Synergies and Cards

Tragic Slip is possibly the most powerful removal card in the deck, because there's almost always a way to kill a creature. Lay a Victim of Night down or smoke a 2/2 with the life-gaining Pharika's Cure and you have the means to remove almost any creature threat with a single mana.

Mutilate is clearly the big board wipe, but Killing Wave is devious, pressuring your opponent to choose between their creatures and their life total, often leaving the one creature they decide to save open to a Tragic Slip or better yet Tribute to Hunger .

Chalice of Life + Elixir of Immortality : Chalice is an incredibly underrated card that puts your opponent on a brutal clock, and an often-overlooked benefit to Elixir is that it shuffles your entire graveyard into your library, allowing you to redraw valuable cards. Activating more than one Elixir and transforming more than one Chalice by the mid-to-late game is a very realistic possibility, and watching your opponent go into paroxysms as they realize they're going to take 10 damage every turn is good times.

Sanguine Bond + pretty much everything: There is so much punishment in this deck sanguine bond is actually less critical than you might expect, but getting one (or two) out gives you insane value for all of your life gain effects, from Pharika's Cure to Consume Spirit to Sorin Markov to Elixir of Immortality to (my personal favourite) Tribute to Hunger .

Sorin's Vengeance is a beautiful late-game finisher, and a 20 damage bomb if you happen to have a Sanguine Bond out.

Tips

If I don't need them for mana or to transform Chalice of Life   I like leaving Radiant Fountain in my hand until I have a sanguine bond out.

I almost always use Sign in Blood to draw cards, but it can also be used as a shock if you're in a bind and your opponent is down to 2 life.

Use your other removal spells to be able to play Tribute to Hunger strategically, forcing your opponent to sacrifice a particularly large creature, or, better yet, a creature with indestructible.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated, but before you suggest it yes I know about Exquisite Blood and no it will not be added to the deck. I think the Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood infinite combo is cheap, and nobody has fun playing against it.

If you like the deck please +1. Thanks!

Top Ranked	Achieved #13 position overall 10 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Chalice of Life + Elixir of Immortality
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 8 - 5 Rares 11 - 4 Uncommons 17 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.91
Folders	Copied, decks, Misc Decks, Try me, Ideas, I liek thiz, Possible decks, modern, Shiggles, Misc Modern
Based on	Vampires: Transfusion recklesspong MDN