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This is a budget deck centered around vampires and removal. Ideally, cards like Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth , Thoughtseize , and Cavern of Souls would have a place in this deck but I'm trying to keep this deck less than $150. Looking for some input to make this a fairly competitive deck.

The deck has two win conditions: Flip Bloodline Keeper   to overwhelm an opponent or hit Sanguine Bond + a kicked Blood Tribute .

The first win-con gets a lot of help from Bloodghast , andMutavault and sometimes Gatekeeper of Malakir which is a great twofer considering how important creature removal is.

If you can drop Sanguine Bond and get Blood Tribute , Bloodghast and Mutavault can launch the final punch even after a boardwipe.

This deck is very likely to have a lot of trouble with any enchantment based decks as since it's reprinting Leyline of Sanctity has been showing up more often; it can shut down many of the cards if it is in an opponents opening hand. For that, bring in Ratchet Bomb to tick up and take the thing out. Otherwise, you'll be grinding it out with your vampires. I'm looking for suggestions to make this deck more efficient and competitive. Thanks for any feedback.

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I was overall pleased with how my deck performed. Went 2-2 but the losses were to the deck I knew we were going to have problems with: R/G Tron. The first game against Tron, my opponent started with "god" draws for both matches. I was able to get some creatures out but Karn and Ugin just kept us down until he won.

Second, match was better as my opponent had to mulligan three times. I won the first game, lost the second but held out for a long time. The third match was down to one turn. Had he played any card beside Emrakul, we would have won via Sanguine Bond + Blood Tribute.

We dominated R/W tokens and Fish as I would have expected from this deck. Ratchet Bomb and Mutilate hit multiples of my opponents' permanents.

I've added some cards to the "maybeboard" as to what I may put in the main/sideboard. Pithing Needle can be great against planeswalkers and Surgical Extraction is useful against multiples of/flash based spells. I'm also considering running one more Liliana Vess with also a full set of Vampire Nocturnus (this guy is a huge heart pounder for the opponent) and maybe Blood Artist.

I'm looking for suggestions/options in how to deal with Tron decks. Thanks to BFZ, they have received some huge upgrades so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Date added 9 years
Last updated 2 years
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

12 - 7 Rares

14 - 2 Uncommons

8 - 4 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.00
Tokens Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Vampire 2/2 B
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