EDIT: 3.0; Yep, whole new version, brought on by playing a pretty good jund deck. sigh -3x Feast of Blood, 1x Vampire Nocturnus moved to sideboard, +3Mind Rot added to mainboard, +1Quest for the Gravelord added to main board. I'm drawing too many Nocturnus's. And I need better stuff to go toe to toe with jund. Quest for the gravelord is pretty annoying for jund, and for any other removal decks, and mind rot is my way of Blightning I know most people would say run mind sludge! But this is a speed deck, I'll just never have the mana you know? At least now I won't be drawing that damn feast of blood so often. I keep drawing it as a dead card! Mind rot will keep them from bringing the damned thing out at all. Grr I'm mad lol. Also messed with the sideboard, took out the Mindbreak Traps might put them back in later I dunno, it just does little for tempo, and isn't often useable. Left a noctrunus in it, he might end up back in the mainboard, and I put marsh casualties and relic of progenitus in. Anyway.. I need more testing.. blah blah.. much more testing.. grah grah..
EDIT: 2.53; A little more sideboarding, took the Doom Blades out of the sideboard and put in 3 Pithing Needles, I will need them more than the blades, besides I've got
Deathmark
in there still. Still trying to think on how I'll ever fit
Marsh Casualties
or Relic of Progenitus in the sideboard.. PS: Did more deck testing against some Luminarch Ascension decks, I beat them easily, so much aggro they can't answer everything, they struggle just to get counters on the ascension, and once they get three, I let em counter a nocturnes and then drop a hexmage and blow it up.
EDIT: 2.52; I know I'm being weird with the version numbers now, but I'm just messing with the 'Maybe Board', putting in some possible sideboard stuff,
Marsh Casualties
is a pretty cool card.. If I'm playing against white weenie that could really mess them up, Relic of Progenitus would be nice for the mirror, remove their Bloodghasts, make sure mine are in play and nuke the graveyards... My real problem is that I can't find any black or colorless artifact destruction! If anyone knows of anything type 2 that does that, please post it! >:(
EDIT: 2.51; Quick change up to the sideboard, -3x
Tendrils of Corruption
, +3x Death Mark, I decided to switch the tendrils for deathmark because I feel like I'll cleaner cheaper removal, If I sided in 3 tendrils and drew like 2, I'd probably not get a chance to use them till late game, and only with 4 lands at that.. Its a great card but better in bigger black decks, this is too speedy and little for it, I put the mark in because I didn't really know what else would be relevant for the sideboard... It'll be cool if I play against an ally deck or something though, or big green, or well, its useful :)
EDIT: 2.5; -4x
Vampire Lacerator
s, Its a nice 2/2 for 1, but it drains me and I have a card that I'm now feeling stupid for not realizing so long ago, is so so much better. +4x Vampire Hexmage, I had these guys in my sideboard, but they totally belong mainboard! For so many reasons... First strike alone is uber helpful in almost all match ups, and removing counters from permanents protects me from, Planeswalkers,
Scute Mob
s, Luminarch Ascension, bloodchief ascenson, Pryromancer Ascension!! Most archetypes run something in that list (Especially planeswalkers), Now you might be thinking, dude you still have only 19 lands wtf!, But man in testing, it works out, often I'll be dropping a turn two lacerator with a spare land, that could've been a hexmage! But I am aware that this makes my deck more expensive (Mana cost), so I may end up dropping something for another land.. we will see.. On to more testing! Huzzah!
PS: Since I dropped them from the sideboard I put in 3x Doom Blade I guess in case I really really need removal? I'm going to go look for black enchantment and artifact removal now though..
EDIT: 2.4; I've been drawing too many Feast of Bloods at the wrong time, so I dropped one of them and put in a fourth
Disfigure
, its the same thought process in wanting more Vampire lacerator]]s and less
Guul Draz Vampire
s... I hope this makes me removal more reliable..
EDIT: 2.3:, Per Tilly's advice, I dropped a single
Guul Draz Vampire
for a fourth
Vampire Lacerator
, Reasoning being that I do want to draw the lacerator earlier than the guul, which is true (My other playtest in which lacerator worked against me was a fluke), I also dropped the Terramorphic Expanses as many people have been wanting me to do... Its nice to win from the reshuffling so my Vampire Nocturnus goes off for sure, but its tragic when I can't drop a kicked malakir gatekeeper in time to save myself because I drew a terra... They were switched with swamps obviously... Also I just ordered 4x Foil DCI Vampire Nighthawks (Awesome!!!)
EDIT: 2.2:, Er I actually forgot to take the 4th
Vampire Lacerator
out even though I said I did, haha. Well there we go, now its at 60.
EDIT: 2.1:, Slights changes include:-4x Bloodchief Ascension, I found that ascension is just too slow, even in a deck this fast, I need more efficient one drop spells. (Who knows though, maybe my tests just went bad? I only ever set bloodchief off once, and I had already one by that point anyway..)-1x Terramorphic Expanse, I actually find myself still being flooded, by flooded I mean getting 4-5+ mana when I definitely don't need it. *This could end up changing, if new testing shows me getting mana screwed, but with 95% 1-3 drops.. I think it'll be okay-1x
Vampire Lacerator
This guy is cool, but I needed room for the following, and 4x isn't really necessary considering I usually draw these guys too early in the game and they don't help me much (And I no longer need the quick 2 damage to set off bloodchief)+3 Quest for the Gravelord Lets see how this guy works out.+3
Disfigure
Extra removal never hurts-I'm also thinking about these guys,
Soul Stair Expedition
, with 11 fetch lands this guy couldn't be used anymore efficiently than he would be in this deck, but is that good enough?. I'm also looking at Blade of the Bloodchief I mean its a pretty easy to use equipment, I can even move it around as I kill my enemies creatures too make all of my vampires get +2/+2.. Speaking of equipment, look at
Adventuring Gear
Everytime I draw a land my creature will get +4/+4? Imagine that on a Vampire Nighthawk... Regardless I think I would pick either of those equipments over
Vampire's Bite
I know it says vampire.. but its just not that good.. and +3 mana to get lifelink, ewww.. It should just say if it was a vampire it gets lifelink haha.
2.0:, I'm calling it 2.0 now because what started as a list of vampire related cards has now become an actual deck.
1.0:, Just testing out vampires, trying to see how I would figure it, current list is just some random stuff.
@(Terra's)I know, the Terramorphic Expanse's are weird, but so far in testing I've never really 'needed' the mana, and slimming my deck for the cards I really need + the shuffling for Vampire Nocturnus has been really helpful.
@(Sideboard) I don't know if anyone noticed what I did there, and I imagine other people have already thought of this but, Mindbreak Trap and
Summoning Trap
though not black, are perfectly playable in this deck, the trap cost is ZERO! Awesome huh? Jund Cascade will flip out when I counter their Bituminous Blast, Bloodbraid Elf, and Blightning with a BLUE spell. Speaking of blue, sure I'd love for you to counter my Nocturnus so I can fetch another from the top of my filtered out deck(Thanks fetch lands and
Summoning Trap
). The Needlebite Trap is in there for the mirror match. A lot of other vampire decks run more life gain than this one, it should be deadly. PS: If they sideboard in Needlebite Trap too, just side out the Vampire Nighthawk's haha, that'll make em mad. Vampire Hexmage's, everyone else seems to like to main deck these suckers.. But really what am I going to side out for em? I really need all of my other creatures and my spells... With so much creature aggression and 4x Duress mainboard, I think I'll be able to handle game one planeswalkers until I side in the mages. And
Tendrils of Corruption
I put these guys in for now just as extra removal if needed... Haven't tested them yet, we'll see.
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