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Vito, Death of a Thousand Cuts

Commander / EDH Bracket 2 Deathtouch Lifegain Lifelink Mono-Black

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Lifegain Sources (14)

Lifelink (6)

Lifegain Effects (5)

Boardwipes (3)

Card Draw (12)

Ramp (8)

Mana Lands (4)

Special Lands (3)

Commander (1)

Commander: Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Removal (10)

Mana Sources (4)

Basic Lands (29)

Defense (1)

Maybeboard

Lifegain Sources (25)

Boardwipes (9)

Too Expensive (5)

Tutors (4)

Other (2)

Mana Lands (1)

Card Draw (19)

Special Lands (11)

Lifegain Vampires (6)

Mana Sources (4)

Lifegain Effects (3)

Too Mean (2)

Removal (19)

Combat Vampires (10)

Lifelink Vampires (7)

Protection (4)

Ramp (3)

Gameplay Mission: Summon Vito before casting a host of creatures and spells to build up your life total while slowly draining your opponents'. Use your life as a resource to continuously draw cards in the late game. Discourage attacks with a defensive wall of deathtouch and lifelink creatures while you patiently await the right opportunities to strike.

Power Cards (>$10): None

Sleeper Cards: Simulacrum, Demon’s Horn, Vampiric Link

Possible Edits

CHANGE B Aerialist to S Cleric

ADD A Inn, C Bloodsucker, T Prophet, C Elixir, C Corruption

CONSIDER **C Dreadhorde (finisher - attack w/ Vito's lifelink), D Bloodlord (lifegain effect), L Mastery (card draw), W Moors (removal + card draw), P Memento (lifegain)

During Game

Don’t forget you can cast Vampiric Link on opponents’ creatures

Cabal Stronghold needs 5 basic swamps before it produces a net gain

OK to destroy creatures with boardwipes when cards like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat are in play

Errata text for Simulacrum: "You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn."

Stats

43 cards related to main strategy

10 cards with lifelink (includes Vito)

7 cards with deathtouch

6 creatures with flying

78% of lands are swamps

5 cards depend on # of swamps (Cabal Stronghold, Crypt Ghast, Defile, Consuming Corruption, and Tendrils of Corruption)

1 card depends on devotion to black (Gary)

4 lands that ETB tapped (11% of total)

2 colorless non-fetch lands (6% of total)

Deck Notes

Focused primarily on slow drain effects instead of vampire tribal or lots of combat attackers

Uses lots of creatures to help with lifegain effects associated with creatures dying and devotion to black

Most of removal is for creatures and planeswalkers; black doesn't have as much A/E removal

Doesn’t currently use commander protection b/c Vito is fairly inexpensive to recast

Originally included cards from ELD that creature food tokens, but switched most of those to other effects

Has some additional cards with $5-10 market value but all of these were bought for <$5

Card Notes

Basilisk Collar can be moved to the creature with most impact (e.g. Bloodthirsty Aerialist or Nirkana’s Revenant)

Alhammarret's Archive and Nullpriest of Oblivion also help with card draw

Vengeant Vampire also helps with removal

Profane Transfusion is great for late game after using up life to draw cards or intentionally allowing life loss

Extort ability from Crypt Ghast and Pontiff of Blight is very helpful (one mana allows you to drain for 3 life and gain 3)

Syphon Soul is 1/2 the mana cost as Zof Consumption but results in almost the same total life change with three opponents (balance changes when only 1 or 2 opponents remain)

Special lands help with card draw, ramp, lifegain / slow drain, and defense

Considered using Tivash as the commander, but Vito is much more powerful because you keep the life you gain each turn and he hits opponents directly without waiting for combat

Considered Strionic Resonator but not as helpful b/c it only doubles one of the lifegain instances

Using Crypt Ghast as 2nd power card instead of Whip of Erebos since ramp and extort are more helpful in this deck than lifelink and temporary recursion (deck doesn't have a strong emphasis on combat)

Not using Mask of Griselbrand for the same reason

Not using Black Market for ramp due to cost (5 CMC) and lower likelihood of creatures dying compared to Wilhelt deck

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