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I had quite a few vampires in my stock of cards and decided to make a Vampire deck. It isn't a competative deck by any means, but I really like the theme. Vampire Nighthawks are some of the best cards in this deck, in my opinion, and really some of the coolest cards.
I recently started playing this deck, so I'm still a bit shaky on what will be left in, added, or taken out. But I hope to make this deck lifelink and deathtouch focused. I would like to also add some cards that give creatures haste and flying. I think my vampire nighthawks are some of the best cards in the deck, so I like to get them out as soon as I can.
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Hi, sorry about that. I posted this more for a friend so he could see it and make some suggestions. I really wasn't sure how I would play it until then. But I will update the deck and add in those changes. Thank you for letting me know.
Well the number of (good) vampires with deathtouch is pretty limited: Vampire Nighthawk. The other two aren't really worth mentioning in my opinion. Lifelink is a little better: Child of Night, Indulgent Aristocrat, Vampire Cutthroat and Vampire Nighthawk. Question is how you want to play your vampires, there are basically two ways for B/R: Aggro or Control (I'm only speaking of modern-legal decks, standard is a different thing). When red comes into play vampire decks tend to be rather aggressive and try to run over it's opponent rather fast, red (normally) isn't the colour that takes it's time and let's you wait. Black on the other hand has enough removal and cards to slow your opponent and play big guys to finish him. For aggressive decks I wouldn't recommend cards with mana-costs bigger than 4 and these cards have to come into play and have an impact on the board the turn they are played (e.g. Vampire Nocturnus vs. Bloodline Keeper). Deathtouch/ Lifegain sounds more like a control-plan so here you want enough lands in your deck to be able to play those big guys you're drawing. The thing a slow deck has to worry about is how it lasts until it's able to finish it's opponent and how it protects it's finishers. Would you be willing to buy/ trade cards to improve this deck and if yes, what limit would you like to set for price/card or overall deck value?
Thank you for the advice! I would be willing to trade or buy for this deck, though I wouldn't want to go over $20 (at least for a single card, multiples that add up to that would be ok). I was also looking, for possible enchantments that give lifelink, deathtouch, or even give the vamps haste (especially the nighthawks). I'm rather new at deck building, so any advice is welcome :)
I have translated (from German)/ enhanced a guide that revolves around deckbuilding maybe it can help you with general deckbuilding: http://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/how-to-build-a-deck/Basically I would first look what creatures you have that might be dead cards in some matchups or which mechanic might not really work here. For example the 'madness' ability needs something that lets you discard cards when you want to, otherwise those creatures are rather expensive to play. Creatures without any ability are only worth playing if they're exceptionally cheap, e.g. a 2/2 or a 3/3 for 1 mana. Cards like Blood Seeker are good against decks that use many creatures (goblins, elves, and so on) but won't be so great against e.g. mono Green which plays few but big creatures. Such cards are excellent candidates for sideboarding. The next step would be to identify your key-cards. Those are cards that you want to draw and play every game, the more often, the better, and up their number to 4. Key-cards that cost more mana can be use only 3 times because you normally don't want to have it in your opening hand. When you want to provide certain abilitys like lifelink or deathtouch to creatures there are 2 ways: Artifacts (Equipment) or creature enchantments (Auras). Auras are cheaper (thus quicker) to play but have the drawback that, if you loose the enchanted creature, you'll loose all enchantments with it. Equipment is more cost intensive (thus slower) to play because you have to pay and play the equipment and pay it's equipment costs, but when you loose the equipped creature you'll loose only this card and not several others with it. Global enchantments, like Fervor, are more expansive to play as they normally affect more than one creature but they're also more expensive than Auras to play. Last I'm adding three links for vampire decks I have built or enhanced, maybe you can take Ideas from there. R/B aggro vampires, one of the first decks I have ever built, has seen some local tournamentshttp://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/rb-vampire/monoB vampire deck, based on the Vampire Onslaught vampire event deck deck that was released with M12http://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/vampire-onslaught-revised/W/B pauper (only common cards) vampire sacrifice deck http://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/wb-paupervampire-sacrificing/