Needs Killing Wave . With a Blood Artist or two out, you can often end the game with it.
October 2, 2012 12:58 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #4
no wonder it has so many +1s. If mine had so much popularity I bet it would too. It's pretty much the same deck.
October 2, 2012 2:56 p.m.
Erich_Zann says... #5
Viable Vampires in standard. Good shit dude. You make me wanna play vampires in standard rather than modern lol
October 3, 2012 2:53 a.m.
Very effective deck good sir. My only concern is the lack of red mana. While play testing, I occasionally ran into the issue of having 2 spells that required red mana, but I only had one land that produced red mana. I understand I need to get card:Geralf's Messenger out asap, so maybe 2-3 mountain to replace 2-3 swamps?
+1 regardless =D
October 3, 2012 12:26 p.m.
Erich_Zann says... #7
Yeah id say try replacing 3 swamps for 3 mountains. Maybe 4 mountains even shrugs
October 3, 2012 1:10 p.m.
Erich_Zann says... #8
Btw how long is this deck gonna be in cycle for? I have a mono black vampire deck but i also wanna play standard so I might make something similar to this. I really dig this deck
October 3, 2012 1:14 p.m.
When The Avacyn block rotates out, quite a while from now.
October 3, 2012 1:31 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #10
You will have to live with the lack of red mana. There would be nothing worse than being stuck at 3 lands, one is a mountain, while you have a few messengers in hand.
October 3, 2012 1:51 p.m.
If he added 2 Mountains, there would be nothing wrong with that.
There is something worse than having a Mountain and card:Geralf's Messenger in hand. And that is not being able to play any of your Red spells, versus just one Black spell.
October 3, 2012 1:55 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #13
I'm just saying that if you want to have a little bit more mana color consistency you will have to live with sometimes not being able to cast one of the best creatures in this deck. Also, it is pretty rare when you don't have the red mana. there are eight dual lands. I see the mountains as sometimes good, but are often going to screw you over if you have to cast, maybe a sign in blood on turn 2 or a sign in blood and the tragic slip you may get from it just to survive a turn.
October 3, 2012 2:15 p.m.
Your logic is flawed. What good is casting one mid-game creature if you can't cast the slew of support-spells with it?
Adding 2x Mountain is a good choice.
October 3, 2012 2:17 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #15
When I playtest with decks like this with only 8 dual mana cards, the red sources work out just fine. I think you are sacrificing the possibility to get the messenger out as well turn 3 for a smaller possibility of you not getting one of the eight red sources in your deck. also, many of the explosive and powerful plays this deck makes require lots of black mana. Its always good to cast two gravecrawlers on turn 2.
October 3, 2012 2:21 p.m.
Oh my! I didn't think my suggestion would cause such controversy XD
The good thing about magic is changes are not permanent, and cards can be changed back if it doesn't work out =D
October 3, 2012 4:07 p.m.
I think this deck has some great potential. I currently am using B/r Zombies and was looking at a varient to try out. this one looks like it could most definitely work out. i have a possible idea for you. Have you thought about taking 3 Cloudshift for 3 Boros Charm ?
Skythe says... #2
Yeah, It was featured a month ago or so as a mono black Killing Wave deck.
October 2, 2012 3:02 a.m.