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Knight of the Ebon Legion
Creature — Vampire Knight
: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if that player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Lord_Olga on
Transylvanian Welcome (Aggro)
2 weeks ago
You may have already considered it as its a well known card, but Blood Artist would also be a good target for a lot of these self sacrifice type cards. Helps your Knight of the Ebon Legion too.
Fun Vamp tribal! I like it
DarkKiridon on
Mono-Black Vampires
1 month ago
Bloodline Keeper Flip is always fun.
Maybe Knight of the Ebon Legion, and I'm a fan of Bloodghast
nuperokaso on
"Vampires are a POX on this Land!"
4 months ago
- You should be playing Vraan, Executioner Thane.
- Replace Snowfield Sinkhole with a Fetid Heath or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. You have too much white mana and many spells that cost two black mana.
- Don't play Scout's Warning and Reprieve. It's useless garbage not consistent with the rest of the deck.
- I suggest Knight of the Ebon Legion. You are actually able to deliberately lose life with Thoughtseize, Smallpox, fetch and shock lands. Once you play that, you can also play Dismember which may be used to lose 4 life.
- Technically you could play this more as an Aristocrats combo deck with Indulgent Aristocrat and additional copies of Kalastria Highborn and Viscera Seer. White part of the deck could be then dropped.
DreadKhan on
Claim The Dark
8 months ago
You probably want to add a ton of 1 drops to this, a few you might try out are Falkenrath Gorger, Falkenrath Pit Fighter, and Indulgent Aristocrat. There are also options like Vampire of the Dire Moon and Knight of the Ebon Legion that are probably better but cost more. I think running less than 8 spells that are good turn 1 plays is going to put you behind every game, Modern is a pretty aggressive format in most areas.
People do sometimes run 4 drops in Modern, and rarely higher MV stuff, but 6 drops are a lot of mana, and half the opponent's life might not matter enough if you play it late (half of 10 is a lot smaller of an effect than half of 20), so I feel like you shouldn't run more than x1 Blood Tribute, if any.
If you're very 'all in' on aggro, I feel like Curse of Stalked Prey will feel more playable than Curse of Shaken Faith, those +1/+1 counters add up quickly, while later game people are less likely to double spell. I could see Shaken Faith showing up in a sideboard, but it seems like a strange card in the main deck.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but Balustrade Spy seems like a terrible card in here, do you have some synergies with self-mill, or are you hopping to force your opponent to draw lands maybe? I think there are better cards than this. If you have enough life gain effects you could try either/or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Marauding Blight-Priest, either is pretty unpleasant if you've got a bunch of lifelink vampires (Gifted Aetherborn and Vampire Cutthroat are 2 more that are solid, though Vito can give your board Lifelink by himself fwiw).
DreadKhan on
Red/Black Vamp & Wolf
8 months ago
I'm not very experienced with Modern, but I think there are a few pointers that I can give you.
Your curve should be more to the left, most Modern decks run plenty of 1 drops, Black Vampires have Vampire of the Dire Moon, Indulgent Aristocrat, Pulse Tracker, Vampire Cutthroat, Knight of the Ebon Legion, and Vicious Conquistador, some budget and some not. Red has Voldaren Stinger, Falkenrath Pit Fighter and Falkenrath Gorger, those last two play together pretty well and are quite exploitable, there are some other vampires that care about discard effects. I think those are all Modern legal, maybe something will work for you!
As a general rule, if you almost always want at least 1 copy of a card in your opening hand then it should probably be a run at x4. Most people try to run quite a few x4s of key cards, this tends to make a deck quite a bit stronger. You can certainly run less copies of a card, x3 is for stuff you really want but don't necessarally want 2 copies of, 2 seems right for stuff you are fine with not drawing every game, but would like to draw in longer games (bigger creatures/spells are often 2 ofs), people often use singleton copies of cards that they usually don't want to draw or never want to see in their opening hand. There is a fair bit of artistry to getting the ratios of cards 'just right', so I hope some of those tips are useful. I think Good Morning Magic (a Magic Youtube channel) had a video on how to know how many of a card to put in a deck, the guy behind the channel is one of Magic's designers. I can't properly link, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FpF1SpOTJk is the vid.
I had a vampire deck for awhile, it was Legacy and ran a x4s of Vampire of the Dire Moon, Gifted Aetherborn, Vampire Nighthawk and Gatekeeper of Malakir, these offered some pretty good board control. I'm not sure if you have enough board interaction effects, there are also endless Black spells that remove creatures. There is also Nighthawk Scavenger, which is probably better than the old Nighthawk. This might tie into my other thought, your deck would probably be stronger if you leaned harder into a specific typal theme, there are a few Zombies and other types in here. If you do lean into just Vampires or just Zombies there are quite a few fairly strong cards that really care about those types, these can make good finishers, stuff like Bloodline Keeper Flip can quickly take over a game.
A final point, most decks really want more cards. You might not want to buy x2 or x3 of The One Ring, but Phyrexian Arena is an old standby, it's much better in a Vampire deck because you can recover via lifelink. There are also cards like Sign in Blood and Night's Whisper.
wallisface on
Fight
9 months ago
idfkgabe and Balinor5: I think I need to state this deck is intended fir competitive, top-tier play.
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Swiftfoot Boots is better than Lightning Greaves but both are still pretty universally bad in Modern for most of the reasons I already stated.
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“unequip” isn’t a thing. I’d have to have a second creature in play to move the equipment to, in the case of Lightning Greaves. Boardstates in Modern are small so there’s no guarantee i’d have 2 creatures in play - furthermore this whole interaction defeats the purpose of having protection to begin with. Its too clumsy and messy.
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Ulvenwald Tracker is slow, weak, and requires a ton of mana. The opponent can also very easily and leisurely respond to it before it can tap. It also dies to W&6. Its a bad card.
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I run Glissa Sunslayer in the Pioneer version of this deck, but imo its too slow for Modern. Knight of the Ebon Legion doesn’t really help me at all. Orcish Bowmasters are intended to slow the game down, gum up the board, deal with low-toughness threats, and be incidentally game-winning in some matchups.
Balinor5 on
Fight
9 months ago
I'm not sure about those bowmasters, a couple creatures that worked well in my Phyrexian Fight Club deck were Glissa Sunslayer and Knight of the Ebon Legion. Glissa pairs well with your fight cards, and Knight is a good mana dump.
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