Blood for Blood

by Lycandros on 10 January 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (8 cards)

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Deck Tags

  • Life Loss
  • Life Gain
  • Mono Black
  • Vampire

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Blood for Blood

How about a Vampire Hexmage and a Hero's Demise instead of Go for the Throat and Murder?

This deck is deceptively simple, but ridiculously powerful. Nice work!

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Posted 29 April 2014 at 10:35

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Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood.
Good game!

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Posted 29 April 2014 at 16:13

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That is beautiful, but isn't it Feast of Blood?

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Posted 29 April 2014 at 16:15

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Nope. Check out the combo...
Exquisite Blood: Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Sanguine Bond: Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

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Posted 29 April 2014 at 16:28

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Lol, that's great! Though technically the exquisite blood and sanguine blood can't target their own effects - it would seem so, but it's illegal. They stack on top of each other, but that's it.

This rule prevents crazy combos, and is unique to this sort of cards. I parallel rule that states Eye of the Storm does not activate itself, even though it casts copies.

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Posted 29 April 2014 at 17:14

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Where does it say that this combo is illegal?
If this combo is used in a deck for casual play, then it's perfectly legal. If in a tournament then a judge would normally need to be called over. Since it is an infinite loop, a specified number of times this combo executes would need to be determined, otherwise the player could be DQ'd for stalling the game.
If interested, I researched this here:

http://forums.mtgvault.com/showthread.php?t=6778

I could be mistaken, but I think it 'is' legal.

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Posted 29 April 2014 at 18:09

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Its a doable combo yes...but I don't like it. Effectively a 2 enchant win condition that I wanted to avoid. Its legal becaus the loop stops when the opponent hits 0.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 00:05

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No, the combo is perfectly legal. The spells just don't target one another more than once. I.e., they only get to use their effect once. It's not in the comprehensive rules ... you have to look up the most recent rulings on the cards.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 04:15

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Ok. My bad. Wasn't aware of the errata.
Thanks for clarifying.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 04:44

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Yeah, it's kind of obscure ... only really matters for eye of the storm, anyway.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 04:48

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Ah, must a been working' with old rulings knowledge. Thanks for clarifying.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 11:37

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Yeah, some card's texts are wildly different.

Fork is now usable only on instants and sorceries. It used to be able to copy creature spells.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 14:26

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