Bloody Vampires

Modern BR (Rakdos) Vampires

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Creature (25)

• 4x Asylum Visitor
• 4x Bloodghast
• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 4x Gifted Aetherborn
• 3x Knight of the Ebon Legion
• 3x Stromkirk Captain
• 3x Vampire Nocturnus
• 2x Vampire of the Dire Moon

Land (20)

• 2x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 2x Blood Crypt
• 3x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Cavern of Souls
• 2x Marsh Flats
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Smoldering Marsh
• 5x Swamp

Instant (8)

• 2x Defile
• 4x Fatal Push
• 2x Kolaghan's Command

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 2x Night's Whisper

Planeswalker (3)

• 3x Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Bedevil
• 4x Rakdos Charm

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Alpine Moon

Artifact (5)

• 3x Pithing Needle
• 2x Torpor Orb

Creature (3)

• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 2x Vampire Hexmage

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Maybeboard

Creature (12)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 3x Gatekeeper of Malakir
• 4x Guul Draz Vampire
• 1x Olivia Voldaren
• 3x Stromkirk Noble

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 1x Immortal Servitude

Instant (6)

• 1x Dismember
• 2x Extirpate
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 2x Terminate

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope

Artifact (5)

• 2x Aether Vial
• 2x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Relic of Progenitus

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Leyline of the Void

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Pretty self-explanatory; get creatures out, use removal wisely, force them out of good options, and hit them hard. Use hand hate to get rid of their counter-spells, removal, and creatures you can't outright kill/destroy/cast into oblivion.

Please take that ^^^ with a grain of salt, it doesn't really apply anymore but it provides a better intro sentence than nothing.

I used to consider this deck to be semi-competitive, but I’ve taken the power level and cost down a tad. You can definitely make it more powerful, just toss in the cards listed below at your discretion, and it’ll be quite a bit more aggressive.

Competitive Power Additions

4x Bloodstained Mire

2x-4x Polluted Delta

4x Thoughtseize

2-4x Inquisition of Kozilek

2-4x Collective Brutality

1 more Blackcleave Cliffs

2x Liliana of the Veil

Deck Rundown

• Asylum Visitor is great all around; card draw when you need it the most, beneficial to discard, and a 3/1 body to trade with or to hit hard. Dusk Legion Zealot functions similarly, except he comes with a more immediate one-time advantage.

• Gatekeeper of Malakir allows for a two-in-one, a 2 drop body with evasion-proof removal.

• Stromkirk Captain is one of the best lords on the market, giving your vamps the insanely valuable power of first strike.

• Bloodghast is, well, Bloodghast, not much introduction needed. And hey, he's a Vampire on top of it all, so that rocks.

• Vampire Nocturnus is insane, and when dropped on a full board, can potentially win the same turn.

• Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet has a fantastic body, and as a bonus can help against any deck that relies to much on sac outlets or face-hate.

• Really, any fetchland used to fetch black can be used here, it just needs to fetch black. I use Marsh Flats in my actual deck because I had easier access to them, but Polluted Delta is a lot cheaper and does the same thing.

Casual Replacements

• +2 Unclaimed Territory for -2 Cavern of Souls
• The land base is pretty important, but if it's really a problem a combination of basics, buddylands, tangolands, and/or fastlands can replace the fetchlands and shocklands and Cliffs
• Add in Vampire Cutthroat, Vicious Conquistador, or another copy of Gifted Aetherborn if you need any misc. substitutes
• Cast Down or more Terminate for Fatal Push
• Sorin, Grim Nemesis or Twilight Prophet are slow, but they are incredibly fun and powerful considerations if you're playing more casually. Throw in some W/B lands and you'd be good to go.

Sideboarding Tips

• Alpine Moon against Tron; it also works great against Titanshift or any Valakut decks.

• Vampire Hexmage: use against decks heavy with planeswalkers, against decks that require counters on things (Engineered Explosives, Chalice of the Void, etc) or when first strike is immensely valuable.

• Torpor Orb shuts down quite a variety of some commonly seen plays; Shaman of the Pack, Reflector Mage or Meddling Mage, anything that adds counters in Humans, Vexing Devil, Primeval Titan, Spell Queller, etc.

Also, shoutout to YamishiTheWickedOne's fantastic vampire deck for ideas and inspirations:

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 3 Mythic Rares 27 - 6 Rares 13 - 6 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.15
Tokens	Vampire 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Aggro, Vampire Decks, Decks to try
Based on	Black White Fun with Life mistarilledawn MDN