Innistrad Vampires

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The owner of this deck hasn't added a sideboard, they probably should...

This deck works on the premise, that as my vampires hit you... they grow stronger.

The following cards allow the vampires to grow when they hit the opponent:
o Rakish Heir
o Curse of the Stalked Prey

The following vampire cards proliferate themselves when they hit:
o Stromkirk Noble

Put the above creatures and curses together and you get some scary vampire growth when they get through.

To allow the vampires to get through, the following 4 cards have been added to allow either your vampires to go straight through the opponent's defenses or over their defenses with flying:
o Cobbled Wings - Equipment that gives any creature flying

Creatures:
o Stromkirk Noble - Turn 1 based creature that turns into a threat if not dealt with quickly. Can't be blocked by humans. Grows by +1/1 each time it hits ! NYUM !!!
o Child of Night - Turn 2 drop lifelink vampire
o Rakish Heir - Allows vampires to grow stronger when they hit
o Olivia Voldaren - Flying vampire that destroy's your opponents creatures and can eventually mind control them. This card is absolutely lethal if not dealt with quickly!
o Bloodline Keeper - Generates flying 2/2 vampires and eventually buffs your vampire army by +2/2 if he transforms! Again, if left unchecked... this card will soon crush your opponent with an army of flying 4/4 vampires.
o Royal Assassin - The only non-vampire creature in this deck. This disgusting card can literally keep your opponent's army at bay if they can't deal with this "destroyer of tapped cards". This can often buy you much needed time to grow your vampire army as well as remove nasty threats. The only downside is, he isn't a vampire so doesn't count towards the vampire creature count needed to transform Bloodline Keeper, as well as being an expensive 1/1 drop for turn 3. Dies really easily to burn so consider side boarding him out against red.

Removal:
o Go for the Throat and Cast Down - standard destroy spells
o Volt Charge - Deals 3 damage and proliferates your army. If any vampires have any counters on them, you can increase their counters (the main theme for this deck - growing vampires). Cast this card in your 1st main before combat takes place.

Sample Play:

Turn 1 - Play Stromkirk Noble
Turn 2 - Play Child of Night Vampire
Turn 3 - Play Rakish Heir
Turn 4 - Play Olivia Voldaren
Turn 5 - Play Curse of Stalked Prey or Ping your opponents using Olivia

Sample Play:

Turn 1 - Put out Cobbled Wings equipment
Turn 2 - Put out Child of Night
Turn 3 - Equip Wings to Child of Night. Put out Curse of Stalked Prey. Attack with a flying, lifelink vampire that grows stronger after it hits !! I've had many a game where Child of Night was able to grow to a 5/4 before it was finally destroyed. By then, you'd already have a nice lead in life whilst your opponent would be down.
Turn 4 - Put out Bloodline Keeper
Turn 5 - Put out 2 more vampires (Stromkirk Noble/Bloodline Keeper). Generate a Vampire using Bloodline Keeper. Transform him if you have 5 vampires on the field giving each vampire +2/+2 !!

This deck has performed quite well against other decks and can often win a game early if a vampire is left unchecked and is allowed to grow. I forgot to mention that this deck is fun to play too!! Enjoy :)

As always, any feedback and criticism is welcomed.

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