Red Blood Gives You Wings (Primer)
Commander / EDH Aristocrats Combo Competitive Lifegain Midrange Primer Sacrifice Tokens Vampires WB (Orzhov)
Creature (32)
- 1x Bartolome del Presidio
- 1x Blood Artist
- 1x Bloodghast
- 1x Bloodletter of Aclazotz
- 1x Bloodline Keeper Flip
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1x
Captivating Vampire
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1x
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
- 1x Carrier Thrall
- 1x Charismatic Conqueror
- 1x Cordial Vampire
- 1x Cruel Celebrant
- 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
- 1x Elenda's Hierophant
- 1x Elenda, the Dusk Rose
- 1x Falkenrath Noble
- 1x Indulgent Aristocrat
- 1x Legion Lieutenant
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1x
Malakir Bloodwitch
- 1x Marauding Blight-Priest
- 1x Martyr of Dusk
- 1x Master of Dark Rites
- 1x Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
- 1x Oathsworn Vampire
- 1x Pawn of Ulamog
- 1x Roaming Throne
- 1x Sanctum Seeker
- 1x Teysa Karlov
- 1x Twilight Prophet
- 1x Vein Ripper
- 1x Veinwitch Coven
- 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- 1x Vraan, Executioner Thane
Sorcery (4)
Land (34)
- 1x Castle Locthwain
- 1x Cavern of Souls
- 1x Caves of Koilos
- 1x Command Tower
- 1x Eiganjo Castle
- 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1x Fetid Heath
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1x
Godless Shrine
- 1x Isolated Chapel
- 1x Marsh Flats
- 1x Minas Tirith
- 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- 1x Phyrexian Tower
- 1x Plains
- 1x Plaza of Heroes
- 1x Prismatic Vista
- 1x Scrubland
- 1x Secluded Courtyard
- 1x Shattered Sanctum
- 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
- 1x Silent Clearing
- 7x Swamp
- 1x Tainted Field
- 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1x Vault of Champions
- 1x Vault of the Archangel
- 1x Voldaren Estate
Artifact (6)
Commander (1)
Instant (12)
- 1x Anguished Unmaking
- 1x Corrupted Conviction
- 1x Culling the Weak
- 1x Dark Ritual
- 1x Enlightened Tutor
- 1x Fracture
- 1x Plumb the Forbidden
- 1x Tragic Slip
- 1x Vampiric Tutor
- 1x Vanishing Verse
- 1x Village Rites
Enchantment (10)
- 1x Black Market Connections
- 1x Bloodchief Ascension
- 1x Chivalric Alliance
- 1x Dark Prophecy
- 1x Exquisite Blood
- 1x Flowering of the White Tree
- 1x Grave Pact
- 1x Legion's Landing Flip
- 1x March of the Canonized
- 1x Trouble in Pairs
Planeswalker (1)
Maybeboard
Creature (14)
- 1x Baron Bertram Graywater
- 1x Bloodline Necromancer
- 1x Butcher of Malakir
- 1x Creeping Bloodsucker
- 1x Crossway Troublemakers
- 1x Drana and Linvala
- 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
- 1x Drana, the Last Bloodchief
- 1x Dusk Legion Sergeant
- 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
- 1x Paladin of Atonement
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1x
Queen's Bay Paladin
- 1x Redemption Choir
- 1x Viscera Seer
Here is my third Commander deck, this time featuring my most beloved tribe: Vampires. I bought the new Ixalan precon with Clavileno, First of the Blessed and made some adjustments
Short Story Introduction (Original Content)
Clavileno, First of the Blessed found himself increasingly disappointed with his Church and Crown. Over the years, they had turned into institutions dedicated not to the expansion of the vampiric empire and dogma, but to power plays, debauchery, conspiracy, betrayal and personal advancement. The Queen and most of her court now had more in common with the prey than the hunters. Realizing these critical flaws, and under the guidance of his now reclusive mentor Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, he devised a clandestine expedition to the primal and mysterious lands of Ixalan, previously ravaged by their once glorious civilization, with the few remaining forces and beacons of the race that still held true to their faith. Those would include the wandering priest Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle, beloved by the masses, the great general Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, scourge of countless battlefields, and even the fair princess Elenda, the Dusk Rose herself. They united to shift the vampires back towards their original purpose: the dominion over Life and Death
While there are many among the cattle that is mankind that also desire to unravel the mysteries of the vital and deathly forces, very few are worthy of such forbidden knowledge. The human Teysa Karlov is one of the rare exceptions, and Clavileño arranged for her to be smuggled aboard his flagship and accompany the expedition as an advisor, providing fresh and insightful prespectives to it. Princess Elenda would grant her personal protection to Teysa, ensuring she did not become a Feast of Blood for the more thirsty and savage members of the expedition. Some might argue that bringing a human to this unholiest of crusades is vampiric heresy, but the true blasphemy is, in fact, the complacency and degradation that the Dusk Empire allowed itself to drown in
As if by divine will, Clavileño and Vito had been receiving visions from the imprisoned ancient Bat God Aclazotz, connected with the origins of vampirism. After secretly communing with his proxy Bloodletter of Aclazotz and being promised an Age of Everflowing Blood, not to mention power leagues beyond that of common vampires, if they unleashed the ravenous God upon the world once again, they set sail towards familiar but ever dangerous shores, in order to meet, at last, their ultimate destiny. Such devotion caught the attention of the Legendary Planeswalker Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord, revered by the Children of Night across the multiverse. He made use of his unique powers to summon many vampiric allies and reveal long forgotten secrets from ages both past and parallel to bolster the cause. With this final boon, riding out from their original Ixalanian staging ground of Adanto, the First Fort , the Blessed will only relent when they find either ascension or extinction
The deck is centered around agressive attacks so that Clavileño can bless creatures to be reborn as demons through sacrifice or combat. It also has a lot of Aristocrat influence, and this life-draining strategy will complement the offensive, speeding up the opponents' demise and providing resilience and longevity
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher is perhaps the most important figure to join Clavileño's crusade. Not only did she muster many troops with her status and charisma, she also has very synergic abilities with Clavileño. Ideally, we want to have both of them in play in every game, so Clavileño can set up creatures to be sacrificed or to have value upon death, and Carmen will not only power herself up, ping for Life, but most importantly bring back fallen permanents. With these two, creatures like Elenda's Hierophant, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Dusk Legion Zealot and Martyr of Dusk, among others, will gain much more value
The cherry on top is also having Roaming Throne deployed, since we can now double our effects. Bringing Teysa Karlov to the field will grant another source of effect doubling and fortify our tokens. Other than these main goals, the deck offers a bit of everything that makes vampires so cool: token generation, sacrifice strategies, drawing extra cards, reanimating losses, syphoning life from enemies and, of course, tribal buffs. All of this complemented by nice interaction, ramp and other especially useful spells
After embracing their original purpose, the true vampires were gifted with wisdom and cunning that transcend their plane
- Black Market Connections provides the fleet with resources, cards and extra soldiers
- Chivalric Alliance is a stable draw engine that can generate more creatures to support the vampires or to become sac and combat fodder
- Corrupted Conviction and Village Rites are cheap sac outlets that grant extra cards
- Dark Prophecy rewards sacrifices for the cause with cards
- Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor are used to grab a key card
- Minas Tirith and Castle Locthwain are lands with card draw options
- Plumb the Forbidden is used to sacrifice multiple creatures to activate effects and draw cards. It can also be used in response to board wipes
- Trouble in Pairs leeches upon opponent's moves for extra cards
- Twilight Prophet is a nice flyer that gives an extra card and life every turn
Clavileño's sect is well versed in devastating rituals and spells
- Anguished Unmaking exiles a threatning permanent at instant speed
- Damn can be used for spot removal or board wipe
- Feast of Blood kills something and gives some life
- Fracture is the bane of non-creature, non-land permanents
- Grave Pact makes the opponents join in on the blood sacrifices to Aclazotz
- Olivia's Wrath is a cool Vampire-themed board wipe
- Swords to Plowshares is a swift exile creature spell
- Tragic Slip takes advantage of things dying to deliver a shattering blow
- Vanishing Verse exiles a mono-colored permanent for a cheap cost
- Vindicate is a simple but effective "kill anything" spell
Clavileño and his entourage, like proper vampires, drain the life essence of lesser beings
- Blood Artist chips off an opponent whenever something dies
- Bloodchief Ascension delivers massive amounts of life loss for them and life gain for me
- Cruel Celebrant chips off every opponent whenever something on my side dies
- Exquisite Blood capitalizes on life loss to sustain myself. This card makes an infinite combo with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Marauding Blight-Priest
- Falkenrath Noble is a flying and more offensive Blood Artist
- Malakir Bloodwitch is another flyer that can drain vast amounts of Life from all enemies
- Sanctum Seeker makes just the act of attacking painful for them and rewarding for us
- Vein Ripper adds another layer of Artist-like effects on a massive, elusive body
- Vraan, Executioner Thane enables more life draining opportunities, although only once per turn
After being chosen by both Aclazotz and Sorin, Clavileño's forces were granted access to incredible unholy might
- Bloodletter of Aclazotz doubles life loss for the opponents on my turn
- Bloodline Keeper gives flying tokens and a +2/+2 buff
- Captivating Vampire has a Lord effect and the potential to steal creatures permanently
- Cordial Vampire makes every death nourish my vampiric horde
- Eldrazi Monument gives strength, elusiveness, endurance and a sacrifice outlet
- Flowering of the White Tree buffs combat stats with added value for legendaries
- Legion Lieutenant is a cheap Lord creature
- Roaming Throne makes the many triggered effects present trigger twice
- Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord can power something up, be a sac outlet or can cheat vampires into play
- Teysa Karlov doubles Death triggers and gives useful abilities to our tokens
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Marauding Blight-Priest turn life gain into enemy life loss, and Vito can grant Lifelink to all creatures. These two cards make an infinite combo with Exquisite Blood
Clavileño uses ancient rites, amassed wealth and unique relics to fund and maintain his expedition
- Staple Ramp spells in Arcane Signet, Cabal Ritual, Culling the Weak, Dark Ritual and Sol Ring
- Bontu's Monument reduces costs of most of my creatures while contributing to Lifegain
- Orzhov Signet and Talisman of Hierarchy are my color identity's mana rocks
- Master of Dark Rites sacrifices something for a Dark Ritual effect
- Urza's Incubator is a great mana reduction spell on tribal decks
The Blessed walk the line between Life and Death, and can bypass some of its boundaries
- Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher gets stronger with each sacrifice and reanimates a permanent when attacking
- Veinwitch Coven uses lifegain to bring back vampires
As a dark god, Aclazotz demands blood sacrifices to fuel his power and influence
- Bartolome del Presidio provides a sac outlet that grows in power. Can also recycle Blood Tokens
- Bloodghast and Oathsworn Vampire have self-recursion and are great for sacrifices
- Indulgent Aristocrat sacrifices a martyr to the benefit of all vampires
- Phyrexian Tower grants another sac outlet with mana rewards
- Carrier Thrall, Dusk Legion Zealot and Martyr of Dusk are nice sac creatures with different effects
The most zealous legions of the imperial army, led by inspiring figures, joined the expedition, refusing to accept the complacence of Queen and Court
- Charismatic Conqueror makes enemies pay a toll in either tapping or giving me tokens
- Elenda's Hierophant grows with lifegain and gives tokens upon death
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose is very similar but uses creature kills instead
- Glass-Cast Heart generates vampire and blood tokens
- Legion's Landing gives a token and later a land for more mana or more tokens
- Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle rewards aggressiveness with extra soldiers
- Pawn of Ulamog recycles slain vampires into tokens that help with ramp
Thank you for your time looking up this deck. Any help appreciated!
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| Date added | 1 year |
| Last updated | 2 months |
| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 14 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.62 |
| Tokens | Blood, City's Blessing, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Knight 2/2 WU, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W, Vampire 2/2 B, Vampire Demon 4/3 WB |
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