Vampiric Violence

Commander / EDH*

Rahvin2015

Land (33)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (8)

• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Unmake
• 1x Urge to Feed
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1x Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Creature (28)

• 1x Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Bloodline Necromancer
• 1x Bloodlord of Vaasgoth
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Captivating Vampire
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Falkenrath Exterminator
• 1x Gifted Aetherborn
• 1x Indulgent Aristocrat
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Licia, Sanguine Tribune
• 1x Mephidross Vampire
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Olivia Voldaren
• 1x Patron of the Vein
• 1x Rakish Heir
• 1x Shadow Alley Denizen
• 1x Stromkirk Captain
• 1x Vampire Cutthroat
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Vein Drinker
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Cataclysm
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x New Blood
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Kindred Boon
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Reconnaissance
• 1x Stensia Masquerade
• 1x Vampiric Rites

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Creature (12)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Drana's Emissary
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gatekeeper of Malakir
• 1x Guul Draz Assassin
• 1x Kalastria Highborn
• 1x Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Vampire Nocturnus

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x True Conviction
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Vicious Shadows

Artifact (5)

• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blood Tribute
• 1x Wrath of God

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This is my first draft of an upgrade to the C17 Vampiric Bloodlust deck.

I've been wanting to build tribal vampires for a very long time, and had already purchased the mono-Black bloodsuckers a year or two ago. Edgar's addition of White lets me finally play both Olivia Voldaren and the Sorin Planeswalkers.

As demonstrated in the precon, Edgar supports both a classic Vampire aristocrats life-drain strategy, and a more Rakdos bloody-murder strategy, both with support from free tokens coming from his Eminence ability (all of these are amazing since you get effects for free without much possibility for interaction). This deck will focus on the latter, but will retain the lifegain/lifedrain theme via Lifelink effects and the Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond combo.

Vampires are amazing in combat. They grow easily and often buff the entire team, the often have good combat abilities like Lifelink or First Strike or Deathtouch, and many of them have great control abilities like creature theft. However, combat damage scales very poorly in a multiplayer format that starts off with 40 life. Dealing ~120 damage before lifegain through interaction and blockers is much more difficult that just dealing 20 to a single opponent. Even going for the Voltron win with a total of 63 damage (for three opponents) is still easier than regular creature beatdown. But we have a way around this deficit - Red offers us damage doubling effects. These stack with Double Strike. Lifelink means that we'll be gaining massive amounts of life, letting us deal with the damage from enemy creatures while our opponents (hopefully) drain away under the onslought. To this end, we have a symmetric and an asymmetric damage doubler in the form of Furnace of Rath and Gratuitous Violence respectively.

Combined with all of the +1+1 counter synergy, token producers, and tribal buff effects, this should make Edgar's brood an absolute nightmare to face on the battlefield.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	111
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Vampire 1/1 B, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink, Vampire 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B