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Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
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You Can Count(ers) on Me
i run Rakdos vampires and have gotten 2nd place at FNM with it in a very highly competitive store, with many good decks. you definitely need Falkenrath Aristocrat and Blood Artist if you ask me, but if you cant afford her i understand. also lots of burn and kill as well, Brimstone Volley is great and can be used as a finisher if need be, and of course your Pillars. i prefer Victim of Night cause it kills most everything at instant and swap it with Ultimate Price when needed. Dreadbore i feel is just there for killing planeswalkers and even then ill usually just attack them with a huge vampire if they need to die.
Mono-Black Combo Tech *Suggestions?*
I strongly suggest Thrull Parasite . It's one-drop extort is just too good to pass up in a life-drain deck. Also, since you are running Blood Artist , Desecration Demon isn't a bad choice as well since it makes your opponent hesitant to sac to tap the demon.
undying ooze
Killing Wave would play nicely with both Blood Artist and your undying creatures. If you're going to try Predator Ooze , I'd recommend some guildgates for extra green sources, otherwise it might not be a viable early game play. 1-2 Primordial Hydra may fit better instead.
I second the suggestion about Blood Artist . Maybe build a RBW reanimator deck with Faithless Looting and Unburial Rites . It could then become a waaaaay different version of an Aristocrats deck if you wanted to go that way with it.
Who needs friends?
Blood Artist ? he really helps when you go t2 artist t3 Hunted Phantasm for an extra 10 life swing.
I also strongly reccomend Remand it's just so efficient and, since it's a counter that draws you a card, it can really help you get into your combo.
Black/Red on developing deck
Cards to cut:
Human Frailty I know you want to get rid of humans, there are better ways to do that. Also, humans in modern? How good is that?
Goblin Fireslinger does nothing at all in modern
Kederekt Parasite can go to the sideboard
These two cards make up how you get counters on the ascension but you shouldn't have to devote this many slots to it.
Flame Slash Lightning Bolt , man. Lightning Bolt
Rakish Heir you'll be pressed for three drops, there's no room for him when he's just a bad lord.
Cards to bring up to 4 copies:
Stromkirk Captain and Vampire Nighthawk these two should make up your 3 drop slot. All eight of them. In anything destroys a deck with creatures, first strike/deathtouch does.
Bloodchief Ascension You want the 4/2 split on the combo going in favor of the ascension, not the mindcrank, because Bloodchief Ascension is good on its own. Mindcrank is only good with ascension and otherwise a dead card.
Cards to add:
Lightning Bolt best card in red.
Killing Wave this is a tricky one. It can really be a game-finisher once you get out enough Blood Artist effects. But Mindcrank aready does that. Your choice on whether to include this.
You want some more vampires. It is a vampire deck. I've found Kalastria Highborn to be disgustingly good in some games. Now you need a four-drop. Falkenrath Aristocrat is pretty expensive money-wise, but it's the best card you could use in that slot. It gives wrath defense, and a win condition that's almost impossible to deal with. Otherwise you can try no four-drops.
I don;t know how this checks out for the 60-card slots, i didn't count, and i'll leave that up to you. You also have a really black-heavy deck so you should go mostly black-mana, especially because nothing takes double red mana. If you can't get any more dual lands, Blood Crypt would be the best if you can, then go something like 4 mountains , 14 swamps, and 4 summits. You should go up to 22 lands, your curve is low enough but you can;t fumble on mana or you lose.
I hope this helps you with the deck. I tried to make it have more synergy with the vampires theme while retaining the original theme as well as the combo because resolving both of those spells is always a good place to be. I also exchanged some spells for much better and more useful ones to make the deck more competitive overall. If this changes the deck too much from the theme than you can disregard it all.
Extort n stuff
the idea is to just throw all those tokens into harms way to trigger the Blood Artist effect and stall the board to buy time to transform blood artist or set up the combo. Killing Wave is interesting though...
An Artists' Price
Woop! My Blood Artist & Unruly Mob have arrived, just need to trade with a few local people to get the Murder Investigation & Lingering Souls , and if at all possible Isolated Chapel & Godless Shrine , but I'm not too fussed about the land just yet.
legendarychina, I see the thinking behind it, but by only having one I wouldn't have much chance in drawing it. It does compliment the deck nicely as the other creatures don't have any tap activated abilities, so they'd be free to use & the power of them is enough for essence harvest for a quick 5 damage & gain. However as the ability is morbid activated I would have needed to sacrifice that turn, I wouldn't be doing that individually but as a big group, in order to quickly buff Bloodthrone Vampire & Unruly Mob & if I'm lucky an Essence Harvest followed by Killing Wave etc. But again, if I was to draw it early, I could easily have a few tokens out before I start sac'ing creatures so they may prove useful for a heavy early hit or at the very least a good blocker. I'll place in the sideboard for now & if I get the opportunity to experiment I shall, though it would be another card that will phase out in Oct :(
Cheers Janiax, will have a look in a bit.
Not only that Ponx, but also with Unruly Mob :P Plus if I had 3 Bloodthrones, 2 harvests & 2 investigations, can use the wave of tokens from the first to beef the second for more damage haha.... would love to get that chain off in a game :P
| Low | Avg | High |
|---|---|---|
| $1.15 | $1.89 | $2.96 |
| Power / Toughness | 0/1 |
| Color(s) | B |
| Cost | 1B |
| Converted cost | 2 |
| Avg. draft pick | 4.60 |
| Avg. cube pick | 6.40 |
| Format | Legality |
| Standard | Legal |
| Extended | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Set | Rarity |
| Avacyn Restored | Uncommon |
