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Blood Bairn
Creature — Vampire
Sacrifice another creature: Blood Bairn gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
grizzlybair on
Meren Upgraded
1 year ago
i'm using Blood Bairn and Terastodon as placeholders for Carrion Feeder and Woodfall Primus
rdean14 on Card creation challenge
2 years ago
Alright, 100%like WTF Mode the best:
Scarabosaur
Creature - Dinosaur Insect
You may cast Scarabosaur from your graveyard, but not from anywhere else.
Flying
Scarabosaur can only attack or block if you have more cards in your graveyard than your library.
5/7
Idk, definitely extremely broken in Dredge, but otherwise just weird, lol. I think it'd be a fun mythic rare in a return to Amonkhet or some nonsense like that.
I recognize that you just meant color identity, but that wasn't WTF enough for me
I'd like to see a child card Twins of Maurer Estate, Blessed Spirits, Child of the Pack Flip, Cloistered Youth Flip, Blood Bairn. Young Pyromancer and Young Necromancer are also pretty young, so if you want to continue that cycle, that's cool as well.
Omniscience_is_life on
2 years ago
Lightning Coils, Blood Bairn, and Requiem Angel feel like they could be cut for Damn, Bolas's Citadel, and Rite of Oblivion.
Ravenrose on
Gothic Horror
2 years ago
My gods I forgot Carmilla! Thank you so much. I recently pulled a Innocent Traveler Flip and she's going in! I think Blood Bairn could work quite well; thank you so much for reminding me that my favourite female vamp needs representation!
EnbyGolem on
Gothic Horror
2 years ago
I just read Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu this October. I love Gothic Horror too and wow, this old classic just absolutely blew me away. It was very ahead of its time in so many aspects and has quickly solidified itself as one of my all-time favorites!
Anyways, if you are interested, I think the titular Carmilla is represented well in Blood Bairn with the card mechanically and flavorfully playing on themes of innocence which is intimately explored in the book. In fact, from my understanding, Sheridan Le Fanu's work seems to have been a main, pioneering force in establishing this now common aspect of vampire lore altogether!
Though I don't personally think the art matches up as well, the new Innocent Traveler Flip could also represent Carmilla decently as it also encapsulates that additional layer of the horror felt when you slowly realize a trusted visitor is not what they appear to be...
Arktaurous on
you're awful murray
3 years ago
I like Unleash Fury. Its cheaper than Rush of Blood which was what I was considering.
I like Carrion Feeder and Viscera Seer because they're fast. I was toying with stuff like Bloodflow Connoisseur, Bloodthrone Vampire, Vampire Aristocrat, and Blood Bairn.
What do you think of Soulshriek and Junkyo Bell? They not only buff Juri, Master of the Revue but also pop him to potentially finish off an opponent with commander damage.
I was also considering cards like Howl from Beyond, Grave Strength, Enrage, and Balduvian Rage.
Have you considered running Reprocess? Its a great way to get those Juri, Master of the Revue triggers and some card draw.
Even though Champion of Stray Souls is costly to get out it would be really cool to keep swapping your graveyard and battlefield dudes for Juri, Master of the Revue triggers lol.
PaulMuadDib on
Vito, Thorn of Dusk Rose
3 years ago
You are going to need more than 12 lands. Whenever I build a deck, I always start with 40 lands and then for every 3 pieces of ramp, which for a mono black deck would be a mana rock or swamp doubler or ritual spell like Dark Ritual, I remove a land.
Please retune the deck with 12 non-land mana sources and 36 swamps for starters and you can think of non-swamp lands you want to include later.
My suggestions for those sources are any 12 of the following, depending on your budget:
Sol Ring
Star Compass
Commander's Sphere
Crypt Ghast
Charcoal Diamond
Soldevi Adnate
Songs of the Damned
Worn Powerstone
Dark Ritual
Everflowing Chalice
Ashnod's Altar
Cathodion
Guardian Idol
Hedron Archive
Mind Stone
Magnifying Glass
Millikin
Prismatic Lens
Cabal Coffers <- could replace a swamp
Bubbling Muck
Pristine Talisman <- defiantly want that
After that you've got the commander, which takes up 1 card slot, so that leaves you with 51 cards to choose from.
I see the bare beginnings of either an aristocrats or a reanimator deck. In my opinion you should push more for aristocrats. It can draw you tons of cards and gain you quite a lot of life. There's no harm in keeping some reanimation spells in there though.
You want a good number of sacrifice outlets. I haven't heard of what a hard number should be so I'd shoot for at least 5. Here's a list of some that I remember off hand:
Witch's Cauldron
Vampiric Rites
Ashnod's Altar
Infernal Tribute <- has a funny synergy with Spine of Ish Sah
Gnawing Zombie
Altar of Dementia
Attrition
Blood Bairn
Bloodflow Connoisseur
Bloodsoaked Altar
Bloodthrone Vampire
Carnage Altar
Carrion Feeder
Corpse Blockade
Culling Dais
Dark Privilege
Diamond Valley
Disciple of Griselbrand
Gutless Ghoul
Lampad of Death's Vigil
Mind Slash
Spawning Pit
Phyrexian Plaguelord
For this strategy you'll need recurring creatures or token generators
Ghoulcaller Gisa
Reassembling Skeleton
Endless Cockroaches
Tenacious Dead
Nim Devourer
Bridge from Below
Open the Graves
Sanitarium Skeleton
Gravecrawler
value
Pitiless Plunderer
Bolas's Citadel
Lifegain
Blood Artist is a staple
Plunge into Darkness is something you might want for the pure lifegain of 3 per creature you sacrifice. Not sure that you want to use the "exile a bunch of your deck" too often.
Bontu's Monument
Corrupt
Drain Life
Shadows of the Past
reanimation
Living Death
No Rest for the Wicked
Sepulchral Primordial
Zombify
Rise from the Grave
Victimize
Apprentice Necromancer
Call of the Death-Dweller
spot removal/board wipes
Mutilate
Damnation
Defile
Hero's Downfall
Vona's Hunger
draw
Read the Bones
Sign in Blood
Damnable Pact
Smothering Abomination
Ransack the Lab
Minions' Murmurs
Harvester of Souls
and so forth. I'd look through some already built aristocrats decks to see exactly whether you want to take that strategy.
Oh yeah, for utility lands I'd choose any of the following within your price range:
Leechridden Swamp
Bojuka Bog
Reliquary Tower
Cabal Stronghold
Volrath's Stronghold
Phyrexian Tower
Myriad Landscape
Terrain Generator
Geier Reach Sanitarium
Sauluz on
Orzhov Vampire Tribal
3 years ago
Alright, so i have some spare time currently and will try to give you some more advice.
Possible Cuts:
Dead Man's Chest - Funny card, but not really on theme with your deck as far as i can see
Path of Bravery - Does to little imo, but i have never seen it in play, so it may overperform
Skymarcher Aspirant - Even if you have ascent, its only a 2/1 flyer for one mana
Paladin of Atonement - Same reasoning as for Path of Bravery
Bloodcrazed Paladin - The fact that it does not have trample makes it a lot worse than one might think
Queen's Commission - Not a bad card, but one of the weaker ones imo
Lands:
Exchange Forsaken Sanctuary with Orzhov Basilica Exchange a Plains with Castle Ardenvale If you can, insert more dual lands that can enter the battlefield untapped, e.g. Caves of Koilos
Suggestions
I think you are running too few sacrifice outlets, especially since you are a vampire tribal and need creatures to die for your commander. You already have Yahenni, Undying Partisan, but there are also Viscera Seer, Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Altar of Dementia, Blood Bairn, Anowon, the Ruin Sage, Gatekeeper of Malakir, Indulgent Aristocrat, Voldaren Pariah Flip and Bloodthrone Vampire (No particular oder, but free sac outlets like Viscera Seer are great!)
Now that stuff is dying, Butcher of Malakir and Dictate of Erebos are really great.
Outline
I really like your deck idea and think that you already are on a great way. If i were you i would abondon the life gain theme and focus more on being an aristocrat deck since your commander heavily suggest you to do so (and also because it is really powerful), but i guess lifegain is more flavourfull with Vampires :)
Good luck with your deck!
