vampire and control, tips?

by capj4 on 25 October 2013

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  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for vampire and control, tips?

Remove "Balustrade Spy", belongs more into a milldeck. Black control means normally creature removal and/or discard.
Remove "Bloodhusk Ritualist", it comes to late to be of great use. a 2/2 and one card discarded for 4 is not that good as with turn 4 your opponent could have no cards in his hands at all (depends on his deck). I would use discard spells for this, see suggestions.
Remove "Guul Draz Vampire", a cc1 1/1 without any further abilitys isn't even worth the 1 mana you spent for him.
Remove "Nirkana Cutthroat", 6 mana for a 4/3 deathtouch that can be removed with a single bolt is not good. And we're not even talking about 6 additional mana to get a 5/4...
"Child of Night" depends on your playstyle, but without any evasion like flying it normally just increases your vampire counter.
I personally dislike "Urge to Feed" as it leaves you wide open for a counterattack if you tap many of your vampires.
"Blood Tribute" comes very late without mana acceleration. I would put it into my sideboard, as it may proofe usefull against e.g. lifegain decks.

Fill up the free slots with additional "Bloodghast" and "Gatekeeper of Malakir" and the rest with new spells or creatures.

Some suggestions, based on my B/R vampire deck (http://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/br-tribal-vampire/) and my U/B discard deck (http://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/bu-control-discard/)
Go for the Throat ({1}{B}, destroy target nonartifact creature), Sign in Blood ({B}{B}, pay 2 life, draw two cards), Read the Bones ({2}{B}, pay 2 life, scry 2, then draw to cards)
Inquisition of Kozilek ({B}, opponent discards target nonlandcard with converted mana costs 3 or less), Thoughtseize ({B}, opponent discards target nonland card, you loose 2 life), Mind Rot ({2}{B}, opponent discards 2 cards)

I hope I was able to give you some ideas.
Greetings
Muktol

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Posted 25 October 2013 at 09:48

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thanks muktol, your comment style seemed very familiar and then i realized you helped with my red deck too :P

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Posted 25 October 2013 at 14:57

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