All comments are welcome, about anything you want to suggest or know.
This is a Rakdos Vampire deck for Modern, and the chief of the bunch is Falkenrath Aristocrat - it's because of her that I've included the
Knight of Infamy
s and
Lightning Mauler
s: they're very decent on their own, and when she's in trouble, I can sacrifice them and because they're humans they give that extra boost.
Blade of the Bloodchief is the second most important card, for obvious reasons, followed closely by Vampire Nighthawk and
Stromkirk Captain
. To be honest,
Stromkirk Noble
isn't my favourite vampire, but he's pretty essential for the first turn, and combos well with
Lightning Mauler
.
The removal cards I'm considering are
Urge to Feed
, Feast of Blood, Terminate, Dreadbore, and Tragic Slip. What kind of distribution of those do you think I need? Right now, as you can see, I've gone with
Urge to Feed
and Tragic Slip, the first because it's very good for a vampire deck, and the second because it's just about the best removal black has, not to mention its combo with Falkenrath Aristocrat. However, I do feel bad about having no outright 'destroying' removal spells like Terminate.
Night's Whisper is in the deck (to be subbed out, if necessary, for Gatekeeper of Malakir against things like Tarmogoyf) for the purpose of giving me a little card advantage in the mid-game. It also fits in nicely with the whole vampire theme.
Syphon Life
is just there to give me a little momentum on the occasion that I have few cards and am drawing land, which I'll then discard to create the four life difference using its retrace ability. There's only one of them in because I can theoretically use it as many times as I want, and it's near pointless having more than one in the graveyard.
All advice is appreciated, especially on the matter of card advantage (is Read the Bones an option, or is Night's Whisper enough?), but there are two things I'm reluctant to change: that Falkenrath Aristocrat stays in as a four-of; and I don't much like Olivia Voldaren.
One other thing: I'd like to make this heavily tribal and as flavoursome if I can, so any advice on that score?
