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Dec 25, 2012 -- 9:44AM, SeveredAngel wrote:

Since I just pulled a second Bloodline Keeper yesterday, I thought I should start on my vampire deck finally.
I own the Dark Rituals, 2 Do or Die, 4 Bump in the Night, Olivia, 1 Dragonskull Summit, both Vampire Nocturnus, both Bloodline Keeper and the Nighthawks... and I'm trying to do the rest on a budget.


Lands:
2x Dragonskull Summit
4x Tainted Peak
13x Swamp
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19

Spells:
4x Dark Ritual
4x Bump in the Night
4x Feast of Blood
3x Sign in Blood
2x Urge to Feed    or   Do or Die
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17

Creatures:
4x Pulse Tracker    or   Vampire Lacerator    or   Guul Draz Vampire
4x Blood Seeker    or   Blood Artist
4x Vampire Interloper
4x Stromkirk Captain
3x Vampire Nighthawk
2x Bloodline Keeper
1x Olivia Voldaren
2x Vampire Nocturnus
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24 -- 60 cards


Now, the problem I'm having is deciding between all 6 of the creatures above Stromkirk Captain. The other thing I'm wondering about is if I should take out Bump in the Night for Vampire Lacerator or Guul Draz Vampire , although those creatures are kind of the reason why I have them in there.

I also cant decide between Do or Die and Urge to Feed , but unfortunately [that I don't own it] I think Urge to Feed might be better. I'm also thinking I should have a third Dragonskull Summit in there, but I'd prefer not to pay $5 for 2 more lands if I don't have to.

For mana fixing you can add Rakdos Guildgate its a common so i dont think it will be out of your budget

Between your one drops i would play the Lacerator unless you have Strormkirk Noble

Also i would remove the Blood Seeker or The artist for Gatekeeper of Malakir

About removal you can add Go for the throat Doom Blade Ultimate Price   Murder in my opion those cards are better than urge to feed or do or Die but thats just me

Hope this helps

Stromkirk Noble is counterproductive to Vampire Nocturnus , that's why I didn't add it to the deck.

I'm just going to try and see if some friends have a couple of Dragonskull Summit to trade. Otherwise I'll probably just buy the guildgate from the local card shop for the time being.

I personally like the Artist , but I will fit in some of those Gatekeepers to compliment him.

I chose Do or Die afterall. For 2 mana, it gets rid of multiple creatures. And after choosing Blood Artist, I think it is a better choice.



As for the Pulse Tracker and Blood Seeker , I was thinking of a multiplayer game perspective. But then again, I don't want to make everyone looking at me as a target early in the game.



So, I've chosen Vampire Lacerator over Guul Draz Vampire and Pulse Tracker .

I WILL drop those Interloper s. They're just kind of... meh. In that slot, I'll add 3 Gatekeeper of Malakir and 2 Vampire Hexmage . Somehow I forgot about the Hexmage, and I think it would be a nice edition to this deck.

And I'm just going to add a 3rd Dragonskull Summit since that's what I'm shooting for in the end.


How does it look now? (Original post edited)

Only thing I'd do is dump Bump (hehe, dump Bump...lol) for 4 Terminate s. List looks good.

Yes, but you don't need cards that will do damage exclusively to your opponent. You'll have plenty of critters to do that. What you need is more removal to clear the way for said critters.Spells that will deal damage to creatures OR players is cool, like a Lightning Bolt , but I also don't like limiting myself to a certain damage number. 3 damage may not be enough to kill something later on so your vamps can get through. Un-conditional removal is king in aggro.

As far as Gatekeeper vs. Assassin, I prefer a combination of the two, but if I could run only one, I'd probably stick to the Gatekeepers.

I've completed this deck as shown, have played a few games now... and it is definitely awesome.


Bump in the Night is the only card I've noticed that could be improved upon. I haven't had any huge problems with creatures yet, so I'm not sure what to replace it with. It actually isn't a bad choice at all, and I added it to compliment Vampire Lacerator . But if I had to choose... I'm thinking it would be between Diabolic Edict (or Terminate as previously suggested) and Duress . Duress seems like the safest choice, as I just have creature removal and Olivia otherwise. I may also run just 3 of them in here I'm thinking.


Otherwise, I am very pleased with how this deck has turned out so far.