This is my first deck so please be kind. :-) I liked the idea of a lifedrain-lifegain deck so this is my version. I built this deck to be very versatile in the ways you can win, not just with lifedrain. I also meant this to be very budget. Let me know what you think and any suggestions you have.
CARDS
Drana's Emissary - This card is very important to the deck. It starts the lifedrain-lifegain process on each upkeep. It also has synergy with - Kalastria Healer when it enters the battlefield, and triggers the lifedrain of Cliffhaven Vampire and the +1 of Bloodbond Vampire. This can also be used to attack as it has flying.
Cliffhaven Vampire - This card is important for the lifedrain. It has synergy all over the deck because any time you gain life this will drain the opponent's life. You can also use it to attack as it has flying.
Bloodbond Vampire - This card is used as your enforcer. Each time you gain life you get a +1, which can be every turn if you have the synergies of the other cards.
Aerial Responder - Good card as it has vigilance and flying and can attack/defend. It also has lifelink so it has synergy with the lifegain-lifedrain cards.
Gifted Aetherborn - This card is useful for two purposes. It gives you lifelink to have synergy with the lifegain-lifedrain aspect. It also can act as a removal card as it has deathtouch.
Kalastria Healer - This is a quick card to get on the battlefield and gives you synergies with the other vampires and gains you life if you put it on the battlefield without any other allies.
Lone Rider
- This is another quick card that can turn into a pain for the opponent. It has lifelink to have synergy with the lifegain-lifedrain. It also has firststrike which is useful if you get Odric, Lunarch Marshal. Additionally, if you gain 3 or more life in one turn the card transforms and becomes even more powerful.
Authority of the Consuls - Very useful card in that it slows the opponent's creatures as they arrive on the battlefield tapped. It is also useful as it gives the synergy of lifegain-lifedrain each time the opponent plays a creature.
Kambal, Consul of Allocation - This card is useful as it punishes the opponent for playing non-creature cards. If they do it has synergy with lifegain-lifedrain. The card can also act as an attacker-defender.
Odric, Lunarch Marshal - This is a great card and can be a game finisher. If this card is played then each creature on the battlefield will take on the characteristics of the others, such as lifelink, deathtouch, flying, first strike, vigilance, etc. This deck has all of those elements so it provides huge synergy.
Oblivion Strike - Removal card.
Essence Extraction - Removal card, but also provides you life, which has synergy with lifegain-lifedrain.
SIDEBOARD
These cards focus on removal, especially artifacts.
