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Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight
Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose. (Dying is being put into the graveyard from the battlefield. Tokens enter the graveyard before they cease to exist.)
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.
![[EDH] The Bloody {Mardu} thumbnail](http://static.tappedout.net/chart/40-0-45-15-0-small.png)
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Mortlocke on New commander rules makes my …
2 months ago
Ah, that makes so much more sense now, MollyMab. I remember this change! It greatly benefitted my playgroup as one of my friends had a Elenda, the Dusk Rose deck. Thanks for the clarification.
Eloniel on
Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer
6 months ago
I continued to dig for cards both old and news, that are not listed here but could fit:
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Gift of Immortality : This card has lot of potential, i think this card has been glanced over because if you're not careful you don't realize it's every end step and not only yours. Even if used on a one mana afterlife 1 fodder, in a turn rotation of a 4 players game it would already have payed for itself (4 recursion of 1 mana creatures for 3 mana). In this deck it's like a better version of Ophiomancer. Others awesome targets would be Market Gnome, Ranger-Captain of Eos, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Hallowed Spiritkeeper, Kokusho, the Evening Star (for those that play it like me). Or can be used as a protection for sacrifice engine, a draw engine, a blood artist effect or Teysa. With flash or an ability to chose of make it comeback to your hand instead of attached to the creature i think it would be a no brainer.
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Crowded Crypt : both a ramp and a payoff cards, with Teysa and a one mana afterlife 1 fodder it's already 6 corpse counter on the Crowded Crypt, a few other sacrifice and it's a winning condition. I know it's a 3 mana ramps but it's very fitting in this deck and a ramp.
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Bartolome del Presidio: another free sacrifice engine for 2 manas, but personnally i would prefer using Warren Soultrader and Viscera Seer.
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Reliquary Monk: An interesting removal, i almost find it better than Cathar Commando since with Teysa it's a double removal. Of course the downside are the 3 mana cost that can't be splitted over time like Cathar and flash missing.
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Funeral Room / Awakening Hall: another blood artist effect, with a recursion ability later, but you already haven't included The Meathook Massacre. Personnally i'm almost at a point where i'm ready to remove Blood Artist since it's the last effect that target a single player instead of dealing damage to each opponents, it's only upside is that it also work with opponent creatures dying.
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Kambal, Profiteering Mayor: It's a mix of Corpse Knight and token making. I'm not a fan of "this ability triggers only once each turn" and "one or more token" instead of "a token". Although a lot of people include it in their lists, i have mixed feeling about this card.
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High-Society Hunter : a better Grim Haruspex since it also work for other players but still 5 manas, i would not include it.
Raven_of_Arella on
Vamp/Bats
8 months ago
Hi basedgubbs! If you are new to Magic the Gathering then welcome! I love that your first deck idea is based around bats and vampires as the vampires are what drew me into Magic! I don't want to throw too much at you in this comment but want to help get you on the right track so you can craft this deck how you want.
Sticking with the white and black cards making up your deck so far, I would switch out your commander with a white and black color identity (Elesh only allows for white cards to be in the deck). Some of my recommendations in no particular order are: Commissar Severina Raine, Baron Bertram Graywater, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, MacCready, Lamplight Mayor, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim. I think any of these could prove useful in building lots of bats and vamps!
I would also recommend taking out 20 lands (10 Swamp and 10 Plains) and splitting those 20 slots into Instants/ sorceries/ enchantments/artifacts.
Here are just some card recommendations for generating bats and vampires: Regal Bloodlord, Lunar Convocation, Call the Bloodline, Bloodline Keeper Flip, Timothar, Baron of Bats, and Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal Flip. A couple cool cards that might be fun for winning are: Mephidross Vampire Malakir Bloodwitch.
Wishing you the best on your journey with MtG and happy crafting!
Phoenix-22 on
Minthara Sacrifice Machine
9 months ago
It feels like the deck is trying to do too many things at once. Your average CMC also tends to be higher than is really necessary. Minthara wants to be an aristocrat, so I suggest going all in on the sacrifice theme while cutting down your higher CMC pump spells. Your curve is closer to 4 CMC. Try to get it as close to 2 as you can.
To that end, look at deck lists of the traditional Orzhov Aristrocrats. Any variant of Teysa, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim and the new Kambal, Profiteering Mayor. Also examine builds around Massacre Girl. They tend to be brutally elegant in how they exploit her forced sacrifice mechanic. I wouldn't recommend Massacre Girl for your build, though. She is hard to control in the 99.
With each card in your deck, ask a simple question: Does it take advantage of sacrificing my creatures either through mana, recursion or cards? If the answer is no, it's a safe cut.
Here are a few suggested additions: Slaughter Specialist. Bartolome del Presidio. Reassembling Skeleton. Rise of the Dread Marn. Yahenni, Undying Partisan. Bloodcrazed Paladin. Indebted Spirit. Bastion of Remembrance.
Housegheist on
Teysa's Undying Cartel
1 year ago
Nice take on Teysa. I like her ability a lot and she's one of my favouritve cards of all!
It seems like you're creating a lot of tokens... What about Divine Visitation? Nim Deathmantle can be used as a phenomenal recursion pice (and can go infinite with Elenda, the Dusk Rose. Dream Devourer showed hinself as a wonderful ramp-piece which also protects your cards from discarding or similar effects.
Which experiences do you have with Martyr's Bond? It seems pretty slow with that high cmc. Does it perform well?
My first eve deck is a take on Teysa too. Maybe you wanna have a look:
Halestor19 on
Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer
1 year ago
Yo Masterful , Foster_I_Am
I have been testing a couple cards. I really like Feral Ghoul as a potential win con if you can’t get your drainers out. I feel it as a cheaper Elenda, the Dusk Rose. Not the same, I know, but still something that is working. All we need are 10 death triggers to give them 44 rad counters when it dies with teysa out. Could mean death, and usually is.
I haven’t tried Afterlife Insurance yet but it seems like the nail in the coffin if we have the board state. Wouldn’t know what to cut it for though.
I have tried Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate but haven’t actually used it to do anything. I played like 6 games with the card. Maybe not enough play testing.
I really like the idea of Delney, Streetwise Lookout doubling everything if our commander is indisposed.
Those are my ideas for improvements.
king-saproling on
1 year ago
It's not a bad list at all, but if you want to go with vampires plus lifegain subtheme there are better choices of commanders (Astarion, the Decadent, Amalia Benavides Aguirre, Vona, Butcher of Magan, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, and Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher are solid options. There are tons of other good options too).
If you're heart-set on Athreos, I would drop the vampire/lifegain themes and go with creatures that have sac effects (e.g. Westfold Rider, Cathar Commando, Bounty Agent, Priest of Fell Rites, Stronghold Assassin, Necrotic Sliver, Burnished Hart, Dauthi Voidwalker) plus cards with reanimation abilities (e.g. Bishop of Rebirth, Celestine, the Living Saint, Custodi Soulcaller, Redemption Choir, Sun Titan, Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher, Athreos, Shroud-Veiled, Breathkeeper Seraph, Court of Ardenvale, Gift of Immortality).
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