Competitve Madness

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Posted on April 13, 2016, 2:37 a.m. by XorKoS

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B/R Vampire

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How i plan to play this deck is explained in the description.

But basically i focus a lot of my mind around the opponent hand, i try to use transgress the mind and Liliana as much as possible and as early as possible. While being aggro to force the opponent to do 1 for 1 cards trade, which i take advantage of with the madness. I try to trigger the Asylum visitor effect as quickly as possible on my hand and if i can on opponents hand. Since there isn't any really effective way to draw massively (commonly used), it suffocates the opponent quite rapidly.

While doing all this, my 3 drops : Olivia and Drana are just huge, it keeps a constant pressure while i either try to empty opponents hand or blast everything he puts on the battlefield. I played ~20 games with this deck, against 5-6 different decks, and the draw power of asylum visitor is just insane.

Now where i want some advises is for the sideboard or for both creature in the maybeboard, i saw that a lot of people use them (especially the one with haste) and could be a decent addition to the deck but since i choose to run Liliana i'm not sure if it's a good idea, any thought about that ?

And also for my sideboard :

  • I chose Malecontent Whispers against eldrazi
  • Ultimate price for Avacyn
  • To the slaughter for Planeswalker
  • Kozilek's return for tokens deck

I think i will use grasp of darkness instead of Ultimate price but i'm not really sure about that ..

Also i feel like i missing things, any idea for improvement ?

(+ 22 lands may seem too much, but it's needed in order to cast multiple spells / turn early and later in the game it's ok to discard a land, and it can enable To the slaughter's delirium)

Thanks for any thoughts.

XorKoS says... #2

Also i'm still not 100% convinced by Sinister Concoction, it enable madness and more importantly to use spell at instant speed or to "flash" creatures, it's also cheap, idk ..

April 13, 2016 4:10 a.m.

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