Great looking deck, Esoterickrow! The vehicle theme is awesome and the Shorikai deck I've been using has been great fun! Speaking of which, some of the cards that have proven really effective that I didn't find in your list would include stuff like:

• Armed and Armored: instead of using all/most of your creatures as vehicle pilots, why not free them up for a turn so that they can attack by themselves at well? It only costs 1!
• Emry, Lurker of the Loch: allows for easy return of artifacts from the graveyard!
• Losheel, Clockwork Scholar: now your vehicles won't have to worry about getting damaged when they go into battle. The additional draw opportunity is nice too.
• Mendicant Core, Guidelight: makes copying vehicles extremely viable.
• Padeem, Consul of Innovation: giving all your artifacts hexproof is already awesome. Drawing because you control the artifact with the highest casting cost is even better!
• The Indomitable: a most excellent draw-enabler that can even be recast from your GY easily considering your deck is filled to the brim with vehicles, so the requirement of having three available should be a piece of cake.

Hope any of this makes sense. Please let the community know how your deck performs!

Excellent looking deck, zelous666! I really like that you chose Hopeful Initiate and Reluctant Role Model; wasn't even aware these existed and they really add to the utilities the deck can make use of.

Considering the amount of cards you use to gain life based on creature-ETB, I was wondering how you'd feel about adding some cards that generate creature tokens. These could be permanents like Cat Collector, Horn of Gondor, Myrel, Shield of Argive or Resplendent Angel. One-shot deals could be fun too. Call the Coppercoats, Grand Crescendo and Secure the Wastes for example.

Other cards I could recommend would be Nyx Lotus, because of the massive devotion this deck can conjure up. Also, Leyline of Hope to double lifegain AND provide a nice anthem to your critters could be fun. Enjoy!

Would Library of Leng be of use to you? Seems like a nice way to negate the negative effects (discards) of wheels. Just some food for thought: you can add some draw-based mill to the deck to obtain some more win-conditions. I've done this myself in my Arcanis-build and it works really well.

Interesting deck, Beckores. There's a few issues with it though. First one: hexproof. Blanka needs more of it, especially considering he's your only real chance at dealing damage to the opposition. Swiftfoot Boots or Champion's Helm are highly recommended. More instant spells that can provide similar protection are options as well. Good ones include Snakeskin Veil, Gaea's Gift and Tamiyo's Safekeeping. Also, I'd really consider Gift of the Viper because for its casting cost it's grossly overpowered.

Second issue: lack of defense. Blanka is your offense. Since you don't have the means to give him vigilance, your deck lacks any other defensive measures (so right now, all you can try to do is outpace your opponents and hope their decks don't have any creature removal to get rid of Blanka). This is not likely to work very well. Opponents that go wide on you, can be dealt with through cards like Crawlspace and Silent Arbiter. To keep from being overrun by weenies, I'd also consider adding some mass-removal to the deck. Perhaps something like Pyrohemia. This is an expensive card to obtain though, so cheaper one-time wipes like Earthquake or Slagstorm could work just as well.

Third issue: there's no removal options in the deck. Not sure what your pod/meta is like, but there are some enchantments and artifacts out there that can be a real pain in the neck against a deck like this. Ensnaring Bridge, Righteous Aura and No Mercy are all pretty problematic for your deck. Therefore, I'd highly recommend you add a few cards to deal with opposing enchantments/artifacts. For Gruul, one of my all-time favorites are Decimate and Hull Breach. Speaking of removal, Ulvenwald Tracker is excellent to remove creatures when you combine him with Blanka.

Hope any of the above helps. Good luck.

Excellent deck Vessiliana! Would Dark Ritual make sense in your deck? The prospect of a turn 1 Ayara seems rather interesting to me :) Another card that could be really nice in here is The Darkness Crystal. Cheapens practically all you cast, is a lovely bit of permanent graveyard hate AND allows you to steal. Also, Whip of Erebos seems great in this kind of mono-black deck. Ensures that any valuable creatures you lose can be reused at least once and the lifegain potential is insane.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the general idea of this deck is to generate tokens and benefit from that by gaining (or draining) life and by saccing some of them through Krav so you can draw cards. So anything that's not helping towards that, can prolly be axed. In my opinion, this would be cards like:

• Abstruse Appropriation: stealing creatures is fun, but this spell really makes it rather expensive. First you pay 4 to remove something and then the removed creature's mana cost to steal it. If you keep it for removal purposes, it's much better to replace with something that's cheaper to cast, like Path to Exile or Swords to Plowshares.
• Command the Dreadhorde: I get why you'd include this, considering the deck's theme, but there are better ways to steal opposing creatures. If you're THAT horny for what's in opposing graveyards, use Grave Betrayal; at least it won't cost you any life and it's an enchantment so it can be used until someone manages to zap it.
• Debt to the Deathless: you don't need this. The deck already contains plenty of ways to deprive the opposition of their lifepoints AND plenty of ways for you to gain life. This just seems expensive to me.
• Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip: honestly, wtf is this doing in here? Not saying this isn't a fun card, but considering its costs and the fact that your deck doesn't do anything with making your creatures unblockable, this seems a waste of a slot to me.
• Emeria's Call  ^Flip: have some doubts about this one. I get it, but are Angel tokens so important that you're willing to spend 7 mana on a spell that saves your tokens from destruction? There are cheaper ways to do this (but then you don't get Angels), like Make a Stand, Rootborn Defenses or Unbreakable Formation.
• Glasswing Grace  ^Flip: it's a nice boost for a single creature, but it doesn't add to the deck's theme.
• Increasing Devotion: not bad but it's also relatively expensive to cast for what you get in return. Matter of taste I suppose; personally I'd leave it out (the deck has plenty of (cheaper) token-generation already).
• Polluted Bonds: strong drain, but not of a kind that's in-theme with the rest of the deck.
• The Regalia: it's an ok ramping mechanism. I'd replace it with a cheaper-to-cast mana rock though, which saves you some time. Jet Medallion, Orzhov Signet, Pearl Medallion, Talisman of Hierarchy ... whichever works.

So aside from all the above, you can cut four lands (or replace them with cheap-to-cast mana rocks to increase resource availability). Good luck.

You're welcome m8. Honestly would love to give this deck a try myself; should have all the cards for it in my collection. Curious to see how my local pod responds to it. I'd make only a few minor changes to it, but I'll let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the inspiration!

Looks great to me, +1! Is there anything that you feel the deck struggles with? It seems pretty well-balanced to me.

Play-tested this a few times. It's really quite amazing, Etali consistently appeared on or before turn 5, so well done on that. What I'm missing are cards that allow you to easily copy him, which will allow you to benefit more from his insane ETB-ability. I was thinking cards like Mirage Phalanx, Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink or Splinter Twin.

Excellent looking deck. Jin will allow you to attack with impunity and reap some nice benefits from this. Adding cards like Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip or Vorpal Sword would make him even more deadly in this regard. Also, in its current form, the deck will have a hard time dealing with mass tokens, so perhaps you can add a few things to make that easier on yourself. I was thinking wipes like Damnation or Wrath of God, but also cards that destroy/negate the use of mass tokens like Archfiend of Depravity, Crawlspace and Silent Arbiter.