The pre-Ravnica expansions had some pieces and some cards that pointed out to Aristocrats, but they lacked a good sacrifice outlet, or a Blood Artist effect. In Ravnica Allegiance there are Blood Artist effects such as
Judith, the Scourge Diva
(which by the way, it can ping creatures and Planeswalkers) and good sacrifice outlets such as
Priest of Forgotten Gods
which has a ton going on, or
Pitiless Pontiff
which is an excellent blocker to grind out the game! Very resilient to wraths too. There are also cheap creatures to sacrifice which are either recursive like
Gutterbones
or that are 2-for-1 like
Hunted Witness
. The latter is a more or less recent inclusion replacing
Footlight Fiend
thanks to one of the newest additions to the deck in
Cruel Celebrant
which is awesome! It is a 1/2 that comes down on turn 2, and it triggers upon creatures and planeswalkers dying! Another spicy include is
God-Eternal Bontu
which gives you a ton of value when it enters the battlefield. A line I like a lot with this God is to play it, and with the trigger on the stack you sacrifice itself to the Pontiff for instance, it dies, goes third from the top and you redraw it. If you sacrificed the Witness and Gutterbones to the first ETB trigger, the next turn you do the same with the same Gutterbones and the tokens that the Witness left, and you drain them for maybe 3 or 4 both turns!
More fodder to get sacrificed comes in
Dreadhorde Invasion
which produces one token a turn provided that you sac or trade once a turn. This spot in the deck used to be occupied by
Hero of Precinct One
which I realized it warps and limits a lot your deck building options and it is rare to make more than one token a turn. It's way more common not being able to play a multicolour spell, your opponent kills it, and you just played a bear that did nothing. Dreadhorde Invasion is almost guaranteed to give you one token by your next turn, and it's harder to remove in that's an enchantment.
In the card-draw department there are three
Midnight Reaper
. Previously I had
Theater of Horrors
which is nice, and triggered the Hero, but as it stands I think the deck prefers the Midnight Reaper is better.
There are a couple of
Plaguecrafter
in the maindeck, which are surprisingly good against Esper (forcing to sac a Planeswaker) or Izzet, basically decks that don't go wide. I also took out
Revival / Revenge
and I included
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
which is basially repeatable recursion, which also gains life. It's basically a better Revival/Revenge in this deck. Finally, beyond the creatures that force sacrificing, as the Crafter and the Priest, and the Judith triggers, there's also three
Mortify
in the Main Deck
