Creature Challenge #6 Vampires

by Jessie on 04 May 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (3 cards)

Creatures (3)

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Deck Description

Deck number 6 of Creature Challenge. A challenge where I design 12 designs: 2 of each color and 2 artifact decks...each designed around a Creature theme.

Vampires. I want to suck your blood. The first deck of the Creature challenge that is combo heavy. What do Vampires do? They suck your blood! Main idea here is to have vampires that keep coming back to life, providing me both mana and chump blockers, while I cast spells that sap your life while restoring me.

Tell me what you think! How does Vampires rank compared to Humans? Beasts or Angels? Merfolk? Dragons?

When all 12 decks are built, I will have an all out tournament with them, to see whom is the best.

How to Play

"I want to suck your blood!"

Sanguine Bond is the key. Every time I gain life my opponent loses life. Now, my friends, look at Blood Tribute. Ouch, right?

So, say my opponent has 20 life. I have Sanguine Bond on the table. I play Blood Tribute and tap a Vampire. I gain 10 life and they lose 20 life. Game over.

Please look at how many cards I have, in this deck, that involve Sanguine Bond/Blood Tribute:

Sanguine Bond/Consume Spirit. I gain x life as my opponent receives 2x damage.

Sanguine Bond/Markov Patrician/Vampire Nighthawk. Both creatures have Lifelink. Nighthawk is a beast in that he also has Flying/Deathtouch.
With Sanguine Bond in play Patrician and Nighthawk are brutal! Patrician does 6 damage and you gain 3 life. Nighthawk does 4 damage and you gain 2 life for each time they attack if Sanguine Bond is on the board.

Sanguine Bond/Damnation/Blood Artist. With Sanguine Bond and Blood Artist in play, cast Damnation. Now all creatures will die, and you will gain 1 life for each creature destroyed and your opponent will receive 2 damage for each creature destroyed. Brutal.

Sanguine Bond/Nevinyrral's Disk/Blood Artist. Same as above, except you are going to nuke all of their artifacts and enchantments too. Which Is very damn important in a black deck, where artifact and enchantment destruction is hard to come by.

Blood Tribute/Bloodghast/Guul Draz Vampire- Get your opponent down to 10 life and both these creatures benefit. And Bloodghast is crazy difficult to kill. Chump block him every turn.

Viscera Seer/Damnation. Sac your creatures to Seer before you Cast Damnation to scry and put your best card on top of your library. Namely, a Nighthawk or Sanguine Bond.

Gitaxian Probe for drawing power. Pay 2 life to draw a card, sure, why not?

Dark Ritual for mana power. 5 mana on the 3rd turn or 6 mana on the 4th turn, sure, why not?



Deck Tags

  • Challenge
  • Vampire
  • Life Drain
  • Infinite Combo

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Creature Challenge #6 Vampires

Come on guys. Give advice.

I want like hell to be able to fit in a Culling the Weak.
3rd turn. Culling the Weak into Sanguine Bond.
4th turn. Dark Ritual into Blood Tribute.

Help out!!!

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Posted 15 May 2014 at 04:13

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sorin markov would work great

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Posted 16 May 2014 at 04:34

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True story. I have several Planeswalkers...but i refuse to use them in any deck. lol. Just...i don't know...maybe I am too old, lol.

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Posted 16 May 2014 at 13:57

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Add exquisite blood and this will win all!

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 04:05

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Take out what, for it?

Afraid I already have the high mana cost cards filled. But it would be awesome if you could have all of those cards Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Bond/Blood Tribute out at the same time. Would be brutal, will admit that.

I think the Vampire deck has a lot of promise to be in the top 3 decks.

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 04:08

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Maybe -1 probe and -1 damnation +2 exquisite blood?

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 04:13

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Dragon vs. Vampire.

Vampires started out faster than the Dragons. But Vampires stalled and could not find the much needed 5th mana. Dragons however, rode high on both Seething Song and Desperate RItual. Dragons casted out Hasted flyers, and Vampires weak little 1/1 and 2/1 creatures were powerless to stop. Vampires even played a 4th turn Damnation. But it was a 5th turn Seething Song/Bladewing that sealed the deal.

Turn 6.
Dragons 13 Vampires 0
Dragons 1-0
Vampires 0-1

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 07:47

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the classic vamps wouldn't go down so easy lol u need sengir vampire barron sengir and grandmother sengir topped off with some vampire bats and sengir bats

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 09:14

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They all fall to storm crow!

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 09:36

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lmao storm crow is good but he is sengir fodder

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 09:40

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I think you may be right, vaan...a few very powerful vamps may of been better then several cheap/less powerful vampires.

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 14:43

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What about bloodline keeper

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 18:13

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Going to allow myself 1 change per deck. After a loss. Sorta like a sideboard.

Vampires lost their first game. So added in more mana ramp with Culling the Weak. And added more diverse mana with Cabal Coffers. Now it should be easier, considering i can put Culling the Weak on Bloodghast, and have him keep coming back, to get my Sanguine Bond and Blood Artist out.

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Posted 18 May 2014 at 18:24

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I may be missing something but the current deck doesn't have Consume Spirit nor any other X-spell for that matter! So, what are you going to spend your Coffers/Ritual/Culling-mana on? Blood Tribute I guess?

Again, it seems like two different ideas have been mixed without paying too much attention to each other. Guul Draz Vampire, Nighthawk and the Blood Ghast seem aim at a fast attacking game but then, half way through the deck you concentrate on mana generating and draining combos.
There are, however, many syngergies, like Blood Ghast and Culling the Weak, but it's very hard to say how well this will actually perform. And it makes it very difficult to make suggestions. But I know one thing for sure: This deck desperately needs a big vampire! Anowon the Ruin-Sage and Ascendant Evincar would provide excellent anti-creature measures. But there is one vampire that is a must for this deck: Nirkana Revenant!
Also, Urge to Feed is way too good to not be used.

To make room, ditch the Gitaxian Probes. "Gitaxian Probe for drawing power. Pay 2 life to draw a card, sure, why not?" Because you just payed 2 life to draw the card you would have gotten if you didn't draw the Probe instead! Yes, you peeked at the opponent's hand, but you don't have any reactionary cards in the deck that could make use of that knowledge, you don't have blue mana to circumvent that life loss, you don't have any cards that allow you to play from the graveyard, you have no cards with storm etc. ... so why bother with it? If you really want drawpower, Skulltap would be the card of choice in this deck (sac the Blood Ghast to pay for it).

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Posted 20 May 2014 at 14:57

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Changes made. :)

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Posted 20 May 2014 at 17:02

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I love you, Honey! (shameless spam because Jessie's my husband and I can assert my authoritah all over his junk): go view my first ever, newbie deck, kids!

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Posted 04 July 2014 at 18:36

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