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| Format | Legality |
| Pre-release | Legal |
| Noble | Legal |
| Hero | Legal |
| Magic Duels | Legal |
| Heirloom | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Frontier | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Unformat | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
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| Set | Rarity |
| Oath of the Gatewatch (OGW) | Mythic Rare |
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior
Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.
, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traiter of Ghet.
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet Discussion
TheDuggernaught on
Sacrifice Control
6 hours ago
Well, I would start off by saying there are two primary archetypes for sacrifice decks. Rally and Aristocrats. Rally lists focus on filling your graveyard with 2-3 cmc creatures, reviving them with Rally the Ancestors and the sacrificing them all -- likely with 2-3 Blood Artist effects in play to win. Aristocrats lists tend to focus less on 'combo' and more on 'synergy', and try to gain advantages through sacrifice effects. There has been some blending between the two archetypes recently, but I still feel they are distinct enough to be different.
There are then color combinations within each of the archetypes. Rally is often done in or . Aristocrats lists are often or . However with 3 color mana bases often comes a higher costs as fetch lands and shock lands are not always cheap. Two color mana bases are often fairly affordable, and you often can get away with no shocks or fecthes. With that being said, the first suggestion for a creature I would suggest is...
Bloodghast. However, he works best with fetch lands. In a pinch, you could use Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds, but they can feel pretty slow. But the ability to sacrfice Bloodghast, play a fetch land to return him to play, sacrifice him, sacrifice the fetch land to place another land into play to return Bloodghast to play so you can sacrifice him again -- that can add up to a lot of value.
Along similar lines, Gravecrawler can also generate a lot of advantage if you are playing enough zombies to have one in play with a fair level of consistency. Relentless Dead and Cryptbreaker can put in a lot of work with this guy.
While not all in black, Doomed Traveler, Tukatongue Thallid, Lingering Souls, Kitchen Finks, Bloodsoaked Champion, Mogg War Marshal, Sacred Cat, Voice of Resurgence, Tidehollow Sculler, Blisterpod, Bitterblossom, Orzhov Pontiff, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, and Keldon Marauders can all be sacrificed for good value.
As far as sacrifice engines go, Falkenrath Aristocrat, and Cartel Aristocrat are the namesakes. But Nantuko Husk, Bloodthrone Vampire, Greater Gargadon, Hidden Stockpile, Viscera Seer, Tymaret, the Murder King, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, Bontu the Glorified, Mind Slash and Teysa, Orzhov Scion are all good ways to keep sacrificing permanents. I also like Fleshbag Marauder, Sidisi's Faithful, and Sidisi, Undead Vizier, but they only sacrifice one thing upon etb.
Value is also important to consider as there are a number of cards that fit well within these lists, but do not necessarily read 'please sacrifice me', or 'sacrifice all the things.' But, they can certainly give you the gas to pull ahead. Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat's advantages can be obvious in a deck like this. Additionally, Eternal Witness, Dark Confidant (or Asylum Visitor for budget), Phyrexian Arena, Smuggler's Copter, Collected Company, Return to the Ranks, Eldritch Evolution, Abzan Ascendancy, Liliana, Heretical Healer Flip, Grave Pact, Lord of the Undead+Nameless Inversion (also works well with any other zombie) might all have places in different shells.
These are just a cards that might be interesting. I don't want to build your deck for you. But if any of those cards piqued your interest, I can certainly throw out some additional ideas that play well with the cards you liked.
zephyr_chang on
Darkness is Eternal
2 days ago
I have been playing mono-black Vampires in Modern for quite some time now. It is actually more competitive than a lot of people think. It's like mono-black Jund, and I've out-Junded Jund with vamps before. But this also means I play much more disruption than the build laid out here. My version runs 6 Discard (either a 4/2 or a 3/3 split among Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek), 6 Removal (4 Fatal Push and 2 flex slots), 4 Planeswalkers (the best in Modern - Liliana of the Veil), a much lower creature count at 21, and 23 lands.
Now, you have correctly identified Bloodghast to be the best Vampire in Modern. It does everything you want it to do in this deck - it is a recurring threat, you can sac it to scry (Viscera Seer), sac it to drain (Kalastria Highborn), discard it to Lili's +1, etc. The second best vamp is probably Vampire Nocturnus because its ability is just insane. I'd max out the number of Gatekeeper of Malakir because the sac effect is very strong in the format. 4 Asylum Visitor is great for card advantage and Madness is great for discard effects as well. Finally, I play 4 Viscera Seer because it synergises well with the other creatures. With Seer, you can do the fetch land-scry trick with Bloodghast, you can fix the top of your deck for Nocturnus, you can sac your entire board with Kalastria Highborn for extra reach, and you at least get to scry when opponent tries to kill your creatures.
Some comments on why I won't run the creatures you are playing...they are only good when there is a critical mass or density of creatures on board. Captivating Vampire really shines when you have at least another couple or more creatures already on the board, and you can forget about ever activating his second ability in a typical Modern game. In contrast, Vampire Nocturnus works great even when he's the only creature on board (a common sight after you have grinded the opponent out with discard and removal a la Jund). Vampire Lacerator is only good if played Turn 1 and even then it gets outclassed very quickly and then becomes a liability (Tom Ross tried the card in a very early build and called it 'embarrassing'!). Stromkirk Condemned and Indulgent Aristocrat are also only good when you have at least 2 other creatures on board, which I have found to be quite rare in a format full of removal. Furthermore, you cannot afford the card disadvantage, I don't think, if you are not playing Bloodghast.
Lastly, lands - I play 8 fetches to activate Bloodghast and to turn on Revolt for Fatal Push, 4 Mutavault as an honorary Vampire which gets Nocturnus bonus and can be sacrificed to Highborn (man-lands are traditionally used for getting in damage when both players are topdecking after a war of attrition - think Jund again), 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth so you can produce black mana with Mutavault and fetchlands (you'd want to save fetches for Revolt Fatal Push and explosive Bloodghast turns), and 7 basic Swamps.
My sideboard includes a little bit of everything, Collective Brutality against Burn/Infect, Damnation against creature heavy decks, Duress as additional discard against control, Fulminator Mage and Ghost Quarter to kill lands, Nihil Spellbomb, Surgical Extraction and Scarab Feast for graveyard decks, Pithing Needle for various activated abilities, Vampire Hexmage for planeswalkers, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet for Jund or Abzan mirrors.
Just sharing my own experience playing Vamps in Modern for the longest time.
Chasmolinker on
Jund Midrange
4 days ago
Yeah hollow one is a pretty rough match-up right now. Thats part of the reason Terminate and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet have rejoined the 75.
DrukenReaps on Ways to protect Lich?
1 week ago
I would look at doing for colors. Maybe Anafenza, the Foremost so that your opponents will have to exile a bunch of things too? This will give you access to green so you can always ramp into the black you need and give you Sterling Grove and Privileged Position. I would also put Avacyn, Angel of Hope and other indestructible in the deck.
this link should help with ideas:
https://edhrec.com/commanders/anafenza-the-foremost-enchantments-theme
https://edhrec.com/themes/enchantments
Due to the triple and quad black the only other things I would consider for commanders are:
Daxos the Returned- interacts well with enchants
Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts- there is a cost for hurting you
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet- similar to anafenza
Horobi, Death's Wail- if nothing can live long enough to attack you will never exile
Razaketh, the Foulblooded- always tutor what you want
Stopping damage or reducing it seems rather important to me for this kind of deck, otherwise these cards will just work against you. take a look at the pillows I use in Divine Decree some of them should really help.
Ajani Steadfast emblem and Palisade Giant would be great ways to protect you from exiling a bunch of things. I really like the giant because some people run damage that can't be prevented and the giant redirects the damage.
ToolmasterOfBrainerd on
Sugar-free Oreos
2 weeks ago
Mainboard is updated! I opted against Restoration Angel because Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet is better in this deck. There aren't many blink targets and this deck doesn't care about instant vs sorcery speed.
Blood Baron is probably very replacable. Obzedat is for when we need to win fast and only if they can't kill it. Blood Baron is to beat removal decks. Blood Baron could easily become a Stormbreath Dragon. In fact, it probably should. I like Blood Baron because it doesn't die to removal, the protections are very relevant, and it gains life. Stormbreath doesn't gain life, but it's much better vs Jace decks and I think aggro decks are good enough as it is.
Triton on
You Can Call Me Grandaddy
2 weeks ago
van_963 I want to get a Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet soon for this deck, since he's one of the really good, cheap vampires. Legion's Landing Flip is pretty good imo, would have to test it myself. More tokens is always welcome.
I would use Dusk / Dawn, but I tend to buff my vampires. It seems pretty good, however! I may consider it, let me know how it goes for you in testing! :)
Darth_Savage on
Mono Black
2 weeks ago
Hi TheLaughingMan91,
I used to play a mono black Devotion deck myself, though haven't shuffled it up for a while, it also ended up more zombie tribal...
I'd fully recommend Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, but to go with it I'd suggest a couple of Shizo, Death's Storehouse, at a push maybe even a Gonti, Lord of Luxury, Ashling, the Extinguisher or Toshiro Umezawa...
From memory Tron is the worst matchup, then UW control, but Tron tends to be iffy for any black (we need better discard that can hit lands than Blackmail and Mire's Toll) based deck...
Anyway, good luck and have a +1
darklord1135 on
Jund Midrange
2 weeks ago
Amazing deck but card explanation needs work, you don't say anything on Lingering Souls and some cards like Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet aren't in the deck anymore. As for sideboard, some cards are just bad like Scarab Feast which only exiles three cards for a whole mana! If you play it for the cycling sometimes to draw a card, I would recommend Relic of Progenitus or to save mana maybe Tormod's Crypt. Another one is Victim of Night, in which terminate is just so much better, AND you don't need the double black. But great deck +1!
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