Tutor-less Dimir Vampire Mill

Commander / EDH Control Mill Tribal UB (Dimir) Vampires

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Lands (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 10x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Mill (7)

• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 1x Helm of Obedience
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

Protection & Recursion (5)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Vampire Charmseeker
• 1x Victimize

Card Draw (12)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Champion of Dusk *f-pre*
• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Duskmantle Seer
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Whispering Madness
• 1x Windfall

Control (9)

• 1x Captivating Vampire
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x New Blood
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Tale's End

Removal (7)

• 1x Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Flood of Tears
• 1x Gatekeeper of Malakir
• 1x Patron of the Vein

Graveyard Removal (3)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Leyline of the Void

Commander (1)

Acceleration (11)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Mistvein Borderpost
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Life Gain and Drain (6)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Kalastria Highborn
• 1x Malakir Bloodwitch
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Other Vamps (3)

• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Nightveil Predator
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower

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History

I had built mono-black vampires when Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet was released. I switched it around a few times with Erebos, God of the Dead finding an interesting way to gain life when drawing cards through Exquisite Blood + Psychosis Crawler though most of my mana ramp artifacts were already in my Ashling the Pilgrim voltron lifegain deck

When Edgar Markov I was tempted to build that version of vampires but at that time I already had 2 mardu decks, with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (who rarely got used) and an old build of my Knight Tribal deck - which has since evolved into Mardu Infinite Turns

I always try to do something unique with my decks. It doesn't always work out, my Glissa, the Traitor is a Golgari control build. Though even that has managed to recreate Prophet of Kruphix and runs the old KCI modern combo.

Anyway, VAMPIRE MILL! Designed to be one of my powered-down decks and with the challenge of running ZERO tutor cards. This can be easily one with Simic - looking at elf builds of Edric, Spymaster of Trest. If nothing else, it's a fun place to put my collection of vampire cards. The mill theme isn't the dedicated focus, with only 8 cards, but how they interact with the deck is effective.

Kindred Discovery is easily one of my favourite tribal spells. The amount of card draw effects in this allow for a different version of vampires than what most builds would. The counterspell package is typically used to protect the board from wipes or removal. There's a bit of mana reduction effects in the deck, which does help to push the vampires out faster and means I can keep mana open for instant speed interaction.

I don't typically run 2-card combos but I've made an exception with this deck because I have no tutors. Helm of Obedience + Leyline of the Void and Exquisite Blood + Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose . Cheating out Flood of Tears + Omniscience on the battlefield, you can create infinite vampires and draw triggers with Sublime Epiphany + Vampire Charmseeker

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Key combos	Helm of Obedience + Leyline of the Void Exquisite Blood + Psychosis Crawler Flood of Tears + Omniscience Exquisite Blood + Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose Sublime Epiphany + Vampire Charmseeker
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.70
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Vampire 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B