Version 2.0
After testing this deck a lot, I have made some improvements to make it faster and stronger.I've removed Duress, Ruinous Path,
Wolf of Devil's Breach
, Liliana, Heretical Healer
and Kolaghan's Command.
Duress is of course a very strong card, but doesn't really do too wel in an aggro deck like mine. I think that instead of being afraid of what my opponent might have in his/her hand I can maybe have another madness enabler or early game creature or both.
Ruinous Path was just some removal that I put into the deck for annoying creatures or planeswalker, but I've just added some more burn. Lightning Axe also kills creatures just as well and is one of the better madness enablers.
Wolf of Devil's Breach
was just too slow. Yeah it was a great madness enabler but it was just too slow.
Liliana, Heretical Healer
Doesn't fit into this deck as well as I hoped. I think that there are better madness enablers than this planeswalker.
Kolaghan's Command is also too expensive for what it does in this deck. You generally want to target yourself for the discard and can then choose something else, but that costs too much mana. It might end up in my sideboard.
But when you remove some cards, you also need to add some. So after looking at other deck and at the cards in standard and just thinking about it, I decided to add more copies of Tormenting Voice and Lightning Axe because they have great effects that also enable madness. I also added some new cards, 4 x
Ravenous Bloodseeker
and 4 x Alms of the Vein.
Ravenous Bloodseeker
is just a great aggro creature, who is also a vampire and lets you cast cards for their madness costs as instants for free. At first I was sceptical about this card, thinking that it just wasnt good since its either a 1-3 or 3-1 for 2, but the free madness is just too good to pass up.
Alms of the Vein is a card that I was also very sceptical about at first, but 3 damage and life for was too good in an aggro deck to pass up. Can be played as an instant thanks too its madness, you dont want to cast it as a sorcery unless you have nothing better to do.
What do you guys think about these changes? any other suggestions?
Hello everyone,
I've been going to pre-releases for almost every set since shards of alara, and shadows over innistrad has been my favorite so far. Not only did it see the return of one of my favourite keywords, madness, but also the flavour in the set in general really sets it appart from others.
So after making some fun modern decks, not really going for competitive play (except maybe my Mono white angel deck) I've finally decided to take a shot at standard.
This deck focuses a lot on vampires and madness. The gameplan is to get you're vampires out as fast as possible with combo's like Heir of Falkenrath
and
Incorrigible Youths
or other discards effect with Falkenrath Gorger. To make the early game even stronger, this deck also features cards like Olivia, Mobilized for War and Drana, Liberator of Malakir. This deck is also focussed on burn and removal with cards like Ruinous Path,
Fiery Temper
and Lightning Axe. To make sure you're opponent isnt going to interupt the early game i've also added some Duress.
Now this deck has a lot of cards that have or give the madness effect to other cards. Of course you fo need to have some enablers for madness. These cards shouldnt be "something useless, and discard a card". They need to have a good effect on top of discarding a card what normally shoudlve been a downside for the card. Some of the cards that do this are Heir of Falkenrath
, Olivia, Mobilized for War,
Wolf of Devil's Breach
, Tormenting Voice and Lightning Axe.
I don't know a lot about the current meta in standard, but have done some research on it. I really hope this deck is any good as I might try it out at some local small standard tournaments if it is good enough. Please tell me what you guys think about this deck, and how i might be able to improve it! Keep in mind to be a little noob friendly since standard is pretty new for me.
Im still not sure what cards to put into my sideboard, so help with that is also appreciated.
Cards that almost made it into the deck:Elusive Tormentor
, Alms of the Vein,
Macabre Waltz
,
Malevolent Whispers
,
Brain in a Jar
,
Vessel of Volatility
, Insolent Neonate,
Pale Rider of Trostad
,
Markov Dreadknight
, Call the Bloodline,
Chandra, Flamecaller
, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.
