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Bloodvial Purveyor
Creature — Vampire
Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player creates a Blood token. (It's an artifact with ", , Discard a card, Sacrifice this: Draw a card.")
Whenever this attacks, this gets +1/+0 for each Blood token defending player controls.
Crow_Umbra on
I’m Isshin For a Fight
1 year ago
Overall I think your deck is off to a solid start. I'm not sure if you've had a chance to play this deck irl yet, but I do have some suggestions for you:
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Idk what your meta at your LGSs or with friends is like, but I think your mana curve is pretty high, especially for the amount of ramp you're running. I'd recommend cutting a few of your higher end creatures and adding a couple more rocks like Arcane Signet and some of the on-color cycle like Talisman of Conviction.
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Bloodvial Purveyor seems kinda clunky as an aggro threat. I'd recommend checking out Leonin Warleader as a potential alternative. Professional Face-Breaker is another solid option that rewards you for going wide and aggro.
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Ogre Battledriver and Urabrask the Hidden are both additional haste anthems that could be helpful, especially if you decide to keep some of your higher cmc creatures. Those beefy dudes could benefit from haste to help them swing as soon as possible.
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Paladin Class is a card I cut from my Isshin deck fairly early on. It's a lot of mana investment for the 3rd level attack trigger. If you have the budget for it, I'd recommend either Authority of the Consuls or Reconnaissance. If you're unfamiliar with Reconnaissance, here is a helpful article explaining its utility. It basically acts as a Pseudo-Vigilance anthem, and can also protect your creatures. It's easily one of the best cards for any Isshin builds, and one of my favorites in mine.
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I'd recommend swapping in either Boros Charm, Clever Concealment, or Dolmen Gate over Treasury Thrull, as more proactive and instant speed board protection go a long way compared to graveyard recursion that goes to your hand instead. Scapegoat is another solid board protection option for those times you do need to return stuff to hand.
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Speaking of instant speed, Generous Gift could be a swap for Vindicate. Yes, your opponent gets a 3/3 Elephant, but in the grand scheme of an EDH game those tokens don't live long or do much.
I hope these suggestions are helpful. Best of luck brewing and playing Isshin, he's a lot of fun. Also, kudos to you for being the 2nd or 3rd Isshin deck that I've seen running Life of the Party , it seems like a fun include.
legendofa on
Artifact Tokens but its Opposite Day
1 year ago
Next thought I have is, what is the intent behind Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers and Shizo, Death's Storehouse? The deck doesn't have any legendary creatures to use the ability.
Finally, to make room for Creeping Corrosion, two of the cuts should be the Fangren Marauders. They can be sideboarded, but you already have good beaters with Bloodvial Purveyor and Wanted Scoundrels, and the life gain is probably the least useful payoff.
plakjekaas on EDH Color Stereotypes _(Reddit meme)_
1 year ago
Or Curse of Opulence, Curse of Disturbance, Bloodvial Purveyor, Arasta of the Endless Web, Dragonlair Spider, Faerie Artisans, Howling Moon, Infested Roothold, Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs, Nath of the Gilt-Leaf, Overseer of the Damned, Revel in Riches, Snake Pit, Swarm Shambler, Thorn Lieutenant, or Waste Not.
The sentiment is a lot more than actually , that's all I'm saying.
zapyourtumor on
Bloodsucker
2 years ago
Oh yeah and if you find yourself needing additional cards to cut I'd start with Bloodvial Purveyor (if your opponent keeps cracking the blood tokens it gives them free looting effects while keeping Purveyor a 5/6... then imagine playing this against a saga deck) and Drana, the Last Bloodchief.
wallisface on
Bloodsucker
2 years ago
The list looks pretty solid, i think you’ve done a pretty awesome job of making the deck on this budget. My only thoughts are:
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i’m not convinced Bloodvial Purveyor is very good. By the tome he’s out its already late-game, and your opponent should be able to manage their blood pretty well. In which case, he may just end up helping the opponent more than you. I’d recommend ditching him unless you can include the card suggested below
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If you can afford it, i’d replace Blightning with Mayhem Devil. The amount of blood you’ll be sacrificing means he’ll be able to inflict serious damage over the course of the game. It also makes Purveyor actually useful as your opponent gets punished for sacing the blood also. Yeah, it’s not a vampire, but it’ll help your deck enough that it doesn’t need to be.
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the issue with Blightning is that it’s often only good when cast on turn 3-4. Casting it later usually means the opponent doesn’t have enough cards in hand to make full use of this anyway, it becomes a terrible top-draw. Add to that that the opponent chooses what they discard, and it becomes really awkward to get good value from the card. It’s by no means bad, i just think there are better things you could be doing (namely, as a creature deck, you want to be making a boardstate.