Vampiric Swarm Tweaking..
Deck Help forum
Posted on April 9, 2014, 11:38 a.m. by VampiricDimir
So I have been tweaking this vampire deck for two years..Notice the combos, such as Blood Tribute + Sanguine Bond and Stromkirk Captain + Vampire Nighthawk . However, I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas to help improve it even further (such as making it play faster). The only niche I have is that creatures must be vampires and I keep my decks as close as I can to 60 as I can.
Thanks for any ideas! Peace.
aFriendlyAlly says... #3
If you want to speed it up, you should try and lower the mana curve to around 1,2, and 3 costing spells. As cool as Blood Tribute and Sanguine Bond are together, thats not happening until turn 6 (or later) whereas you can usually end the game at the same time or even faster if you don't rely on them. The deck needs to apply pressure as fast as turn one, 4 Stromkirk Noble is extremely good.
I would personally drop Blood Tribute , Increasing Ambition , Sanguine Bond , Anowon, the Ruin Sage , Falkenrath Noble , Heirs of Stromkirk , Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet , Necropolis Regent , Nirkana Revenant , and maybe even Captivating Vampire simply for their costs.
Some replacements are Bloodghast , Vampire Nocturnus , Olivia Voldaren , and maybe Gatekeeper of Malakir (triple black might be hard but could be doable with some Dragonskull Summit .
Both or either Vampire Nocturnus and Olivia Voldaren are pretty massive in vampire decks. Heres another synergy to consider. Turn 3 Buried Alive for Bloodghast into a Vampire Nocturnus . Olivia Voldaren just demands an answer or wins the game alone.
Geth's Verdict , and Go for the Throat are some solid removal to consider as well.
Hopefully this is helpful in some way. You have to consider the fact that the opposing deck won't give you until turn 5 or 6 to set up your creatures.
VampiricDimir says... #2
Also, a single, noticeable weakness is its patheticness versus MILL decks. Dunno why. But it's like its Achilles ankle.
April 9, 2014 11:44 a.m.