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Sorin Markov is my favorite planeswalker. I have been wanting to pull him ever since I started playing MTG. I love his story; a vampire who decides to create an angel in order to help give humans a fighting chance, thus saving his own kind from their own self destruction. I wanted to create a deck that reflected the difficulty of his choices, and the balancing act of keeping humans alive enough to remain useful, yet keeping the wellbeing of his own kind at heart.
This is my first sacrifice deck, so I am still play testing it to learn how it works. It has numerous win conditions. The downside is that it needs a chance to set up before it gets rolling, so it is vulnerable to disruption. I am still tweaking it, so I am open to ideas and thoughts. Here's the basic idea:1. Open up with Doomed Traveler to get in a few quick pokes, and set up the human slaughterhouse2. Vizkopa Guildmage as one part of a life-gain combo (and winning condition if around when Exquisite Blood drops)3. Disciple of Griselbrand to help gain life from killing fat humans (or vamps) as needed; or to even be sacrificed4. Commander's Authority = human factory. Slaughter the humans to hurt your opponent, make your vamps bigger and gain life5. Village Cannibals to be fattened up by killing humans, and either used as food for the vamps, life, or as beaters/defenders6. Markov Patrician as a beater7. Falkenrath Torturer feeds off of humans to get bigger8. Vampire Nocturnus for buffing and blocking9. Falkenrath Noble to hurt the opponent every time you sacrifice10. Exquisite Blood to feed you every time you hurt the opponent11. Bloodline Keeper to buff vamps, and make vampire babies to build your army12. Go with whatever works; build your vamp army and sacrifice humans as necessary. Use humans as chump blockers, or make them stronger and send them into the fray.Thoughts1. Trying to reduce the number of creatures to add some support spells2. Very vulnerable to creature removal, counters and other tricks3. Falls apart quickly if countered too aggressively
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Definitely need more Sorin, I would go up to 3. I would go up to 4 Bloodline Keepers. Vampire Nighthawk, Blood Artist, and Tithe Drinker would be great. For some useful Soulbonding you might consider Silverblade Paladin and Nearheath Pilgrim. Commanders Authority would be better as a Thraben Doomsayer because it costs less mana and doesn't let your opponent get 2 for 1 if they kill the creature its enchanting. Godless Shrine and Isolated Chapel would be great for smoothing out your mana base. More Vault of the Archangels. Orzhov Charm or some other kill spell would probably be better than Executioners Swing since the creature doesn't have to deal damage first for you to target it that way. If you want more in the way of slowing your opponent down, you could add Blind Obedience. Lingering Souls and Gather the Townsfolk could be good ways to build your creature base faster. Since Vizkopa Guildmage and Exquisite Blood are game winners, you should at least go up to 3 of each but probably 4.All of that said, I really like this deck idea, I'm temped to build a Modern format version of it and try it out at a tournament. Sorin is also my favorite planeswalker and I've been building and rebuilding vampire decks since Vampire Nocturnus was printed.
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Love your suggestions, especially the Blind Obedience. Thanks! I will keep them in mind when I'm ready to make some purchases. The local comic shop is always being swarmed by like-minded MTG players, so I have to just hope I can get lucky enough to pull those cards.EDIT:Also, thanks for noting how you plan to use it. I'm a casual player, but I am considering getting competitive. So I like that this deck could potentially be competitive, with the right tweaks. Also, vamps are my favorite creature type as well. This, and my B/R vamp deck are ongoing pet projects of mine. They will be tweaked until perfected.
Ya, I've been matched up with him a few times and that Vizkopa Guildmage is so much more brutal in action than it looks like it would be, especially if the game gets drawn out (which just about always happens when life gain is involved) and you can afford to sink in the mana for activating Vault of the Archangel and Vizkopa Guildmage at the same time.
Update:Swapped out a Commander's Authority for another Sorin, Lord of Innistrad. We'll see how it plays.