Why spill blood if not for the pleasure of it? (Standard MTG Deck)

Featured card: Olivia, Mobilized for War

Why spill blood if not for the pleasure of it?

Standard Aggro BR (Rakdos) Vampires

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Creature (24)

Land (22)

Enchantment (4)

4x Sinister Concoction

Instant (6)

Sorcery (4)

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Instant (9)

Sorcery (6)

Rakdos Vampires, yo. The plan is simple. Get vampires out, kill opponent with the vampires.

Turn 1 Falkenrath Gorger, turn 2 Heir of Falkenrath , turn 3 flip Heir to the Night discarding/casting for madness Olivia, Mobilized for War , turn 4 hasty +1/+1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir discarding/casting Fiery Temper at whatever pitiful defense your opponent has mustered (or their face). Assuming you get through each turn, you've done up to 18 damage by turn 4 and have a shitload more on the way thanks to Drana (most of it in the air).

Sinister Concoction is amazing. It's a solid turn 1 play if you have no other, and once it's down you can kill something and basically flash in any creature with madness during their combat. If gorger is down, that means Olivia, kalitas, Drana...

Liliana, Heretical Healer enables madness while thinning their hand, or get back a gorger or heir in a pinch. At the very least having her down can make them afraid to block an unpumped Falkenrath Gorger or Asylum Visitor. And when she flips, free food for Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

The biggest problems I've faced are (understandably) early control and board wipes. A mono-blue kept everything tapped or in my hand until they got down 5 2/2 zombies, then parted the mothafuckin waterveil. Then, abzan midrange/control/whatever Languished and Flaying Tendrilsed through my early onslaught until gitrog finished me off. How to go about beating that kind of opponent is my next obstacle.

Let me know what you think. Vampires have a special place in my heart, and I am in love with this deck. Thoughts/advice always appreciated :D

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Game day — April 30, 2016

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I came to my senses last minute and cut Insolent Neonate for 2 Grasp of Darkness and 2 Incorrigible Youths.

I went 2/3 overall. Not too happy with that, admittedly. The games it won, it won hard...specifically against golgari aristocrats. Unfortunately the other 3 I drew, literally, the worst hands possible. Two games I mulled down to 5 and still had no lands. It was heart-breaking, but led to me reevaluating my shuffle technique to much better results. Lesson learned.

Decided afterward to put in 2 more sinister concoctions, basically to serve the same purpose I hoped neonate would, and boarded the grasps.

A lot in the sideboard previously was drastically slowing down the deck. I kept the other two Incorrigible Youths in case I need more creatures, Burn from Within for abbey/Gideon/avacyn, Ruinous Path for the sea of planeswalkers (although I can just save Fiery Tempers if need be), To the Slaughter...I'm not sure about. making someone sac an ormendahl or untapped ojutai is funny but I'm not totally sold yet.

testing before game day — April 27, 2016

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 5 Rares 14 - 6 Uncommons 4 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.32
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Paper, standard 2016, Standard, Interesting decks, vampires
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