The idea behind this deck is to constantly have a clock ticking on your opponent's life and have your life being boosted with every passing turn, all the while having a decent amount of control and bodies on the board with high value "two for one cards" such as Fairgrounds Warden and Noxious Gearhulk. Your money makers in this deck are Cliffhaven Vampire and Kambal, Consul Of Allocation giving you really great value in one card. Cliffhaven vampire acts as a catalyst for many of your other cards that have life gain abilities, making a lot of card effects even better in this deck, such as Authority Of the Consuls, Campaign Of Vengeance, Sorin, etc etc. Throw in a couple Panharmonicon to make this deck multiplicative and ridiculous and things start to get crazy. Hopefully the main idea of the deck shines through.
The biggest issues I have with this deck are board control against fast agro decks and decks that spawn many tiny creatues, like thopter decks. I think running some fumigates would be a smart idea, although that would destroy a lot of the permanents that you want to have on the board every turn to keep up a constant stream of you gaining life and your opponent losing life. Some extra card draw might also be nice. I'm open into looking into any options here, I've always been a fan of control and this seems like a pretty cool theme to play around if I can make it work. A lot of cards like Gonti seem super cool and interesting and I want to find a place for them in my deck, maybe as a sideboard card that I can put in situationally.
Something I think might be worthy of playing around is the Rally aspect of Kalastria healer, I have Drana's Emissary and Cliffhaven vampire in there to trigger the rally as another form of "they lose a life you gain a life" style stuff, and with cliffhaven vampire out they actually lose 2 life instead of 1 in that transaction just from rallying another ally card.
In my maybe list I have some simple removal cards such as Murder, Skywhaler's Shot, and Puncturing light because I originally had those pulled as options. Edit: I added a lot of cards onto the maybe list that I saw a lot of other similar decks on here running that seemed like could work in certain situations. Feel free to let me know of any cards I should think about running or any cards that I am running that aren't as good as I think they are. There are maybe some cards in here that don't necessarily need to be in here and I put in here because they somewhat fit the theme or seemed fun/cool at the time. I am by no means a MTG expert, I'm pretty new to the game as a whole and this was my first real attempt at making a deck by myself.
This deck is still super early in the theory crafting phase, any suggestions in terms of card ideas or how many of each card to run would be very appreciated, this seems to do fairly well when just playing with my friends, and this deck was originally just made by myself because the idea of a standard BW lifedrain control deck seemed fun.
