Come At Me, Bro 2.0

Just finished another similar deck for red and white (http://www.mtgvault.com/jre47/decks/come-at-me-bro/) that focused on defenders gaining gobs of life by forcing the opponent to attack into them. What if we twist that a bit and instead focus on draining the opponent's life whenever they're forced to attack?

For life drain, we obviously shift from white to black. This is actually a theme black's been dabbling in for a while now; making the opponent lose life when their creatures attack goes back as far as Mirrodin (Contaminated Bond). So we have more of the same here: Sinister Possession and Nettling Curse drain the opponent when their creatures attack (and the latter has a handy built-in way to force an attack), while Hissing Miasma and Blood Reckoning speed things up by draining life whenever ANY of their creatures wade into the red zone.

And red is still good at forcing that issue. Lust for War and Rage Nimbus force specific creatures to attack, and Aggravate and War's Toll force them to send their whole pack at you. Commence the drain!

Of course, unlike the WR defender deck that naturally shrugged off attacks, here we need a way to effectively survive the perpetual attackers coming our way. Defenders still do that admirably, with the regenerating Wall of Bone, the firebreathing Ætherflame Wall, and the nearly impenetrable Wall of Stone. Uncle Istvan can absorb a lot of attacks as well. And though it barely qualifies in Modern, we have one very handy Fog effect in black as well: Darkness. No one will EVER see THAT coming.

The sideboard has some other varied defenders, and some direct creature/planeswalker kill spells if they become a particular problem.

• Modern
• Life Drain
• Rakdos