YamishiTheWickedOne says... #2
Stromkirk Noble, Lightning Bolt, Terminate. Start there. Those are cheap, the lands are gonna take longer to get.
October 15, 2016 7:59 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne i see, but what lands should i start getting first? For the red mana
October 15, 2016 8:32 a.m.
Btw which spells should i replace with lightning bolt and terminate?
October 15, 2016 8:46 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #5
Your instants and one of your thoughtseizes. Beyond fetches you honestly just need 4 Blood Crypt, 4 Blackcleave Cliffs and an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. Mutavault and Cavern of Souls are useful but completely optional.
October 15, 2016 9:01 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne is dragon skull summit good? Should i insert basic mountains?
October 15, 2016 9:07 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #7
basic mountains are 100% dead weight and dragonskull summit is great to topdeck but useless if you open with it. Cliffs is generally better, as it's fast and provides red with no life cost. The optimal number of basics is exactly 3 swamps. you should fetch into swamps if you have 2 red lands or more ways to get them. Reason being life management and Blood Moon is an ever-present threat. You can sit on a fetch if you don't need it to force a shuffle for nocturnus or revive bloodghast and thin your deck. A land not in your deck is a land you won't draw at a critical moment when you need a spell. Urborg lets you tap your fetches for mana to facilitate the "sit on fetches" strategy. If you'll need red next turn you can fetch for a shock land tapped at opponent's end phase, and it's great as a pressure tool since they don't know if you have a bolt. You can also flash bloodghast into play on their turn to void summoning sickness and keep up aggressive tactics. And it allows you to sacrifice twice with viscera seer. Remember that your fetch lands are red sources, effectively being blood crypt number 5-12.
October 15, 2016 9:32 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne for example my lands are 4 bloodstained mire, 4 polluted delta,4bloodcrypt, 4 blackcleave cliffs, 1 urborg,5 swamps? Is that right? ( when i dont have the budget for cavern or mutavault yet).
October 15, 2016 9:42 a.m.
Stormkirk noble takes the place of the bloodartist right?
October 15, 2016 9:43 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #10
That would be correct for your lands. Do you want to keep up the drain engine effect? If so then artist/highborn are needed, but if you don't wanna straight up copy my deck, you can still run 2 viscera seers for consistency. It's a tough call, space might be tight.
October 15, 2016 9:48 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne i find ur creature list godlike but its expensive for me heheh. I can probably get them soon. But for now what creature list would you recommend me if i want to keep the drain engine effect? :)
October 15, 2016 9:57 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #12
all you need is Viscera Seer, Bloodghast and either Blood Artist or Kalastria Highborn with good fetches. Vampire Nocturnus, Dark Confidant and Vampire Lacerator all synergize nicely with this engine.
October 15, 2016 10:04 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne oh my dark confidant is nice. Im thinking bloodghast, viscera seer, vampire nocturnus, bloodartist, vampire lacerator, captivating vampire, stormkirk noble, vampire nighthawk, gatekeeper of malakir? What are your thoughts?
October 15, 2016 10:15 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #14
Sounds fine. Look into at least obtaining Olivia and Kalitas though. With that lineup you'd have a lot of low cost creatures, should swarm nicely. But ditch captivating for Stromkirk Captain. Part of the dynamic duo with Vampire Nighthawk. Or as I like to call them, Batman and Captain Kirk. 3 captain 2 nighthawk if you need space is fine.
October 15, 2016 10:25 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne ohhh yeah i see the love for first strike then deathtouch:) wow dint think of that thats awesome :) thanks. Sorry for a lot of questions. Im just really fond of vampire decks and i see you are a very good influence to me. :)
October 15, 2016 10:35 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne is ghost quarter good for my mono black before i transition to rakdos vamps? What are your opinions?
October 17, 2016 11:18 p.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #17
Land hate is never a bad thing. You can sideboard Fulminator Mage in monoblack or even monored, but quarter is much cheaper. Be aware however that too many non-black mana lands can really hurt you in vamps.
October 18, 2016 4:14 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne i see, what are great alternatives for blackcleave cliffs for the rakdos br vamps?
October 18, 2016 5:43 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #19
Dragonskull Summit is still very much inferior but it comes the closest. That or Sulfurous Springs but at that point you might as well just run 12 fetches. There might have been something else but it escapes me. Rakdos Carnarium is too slow and Graven Cairns needs another land to do anything. Wasn't there a newer land that enters play tapped unless you reveal a swamp or mountain from your hand? That might be useful here.
October 18, 2016 6:35 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne i see i might just insert dragonskull summit first and ill see what it does :) planning to change all instants to terminate and lightningbolt sets. Which one is better to keep? Inquisition or the thoughtseize? Im thinking of dropping 1 card for space :)
October 18, 2016 7:09 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne oh man its Foreboding Ruins is that better than dragonskull summit?
October 18, 2016 8:43 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #22
I feel it is. It's still reliant on another card but it's potential turn 1 untapped black/red mana.
October 18, 2016 10:33 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #23
There's honestly a really big problem with it though. Fetch lands fetch directly into play and have no land keywords in hand. You could honestly just run summits.
October 18, 2016 10:34 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne yeah ill playtest summits and see how it works. Dude btw if im going to insert stromkirk noble 4, stromkirk captain x4 and olivia voldaren x2, which do u think should i replace ? :)
October 18, 2016 11:52 a.m.
YamishiTheWickedOne says... #25
How dead set are you on keeping your hand disruption?
justinRO says... #1
YamishiTheWickedOne hey dude, im trying to make a transition from mono black to b/r vampire something like your deck. Where do u think should i start i want to buy pieces one by one :)
October 15, 2016 7:37 a.m.