Vampire Blitzkreig

What would you have me take out? The Nighhawks?

I love Bloodghast as much if not more than you (take a look at how much of my decks are black), but they simply dont got a spot in this deck

How did I miss Urge to Feed? I play this deck and they are in it in real life... I musta been not paying attention.

I'm still not digging the Bloodghast.... I dont even have any sac mechanic in here at all. Yes e is a boss. No, I am not convinced he should be in here. Feel free to give me reasons though, you may change my mind

Bloodghast is the vampire pinnacle of aggression. You just swing away with them. Who cares if they die? Or if they're tapped? The fact that next to nothing freakin' gets rid of them makes them an absolute nightmare for the opponent. Also, once they gain their haste boost, reaching an even greater level of aggression, a land played will likely result in the death of your opponent.

lol no, but it does qualify as damn good. =]

Awww. What does it take to be "evil". Trust me, people loathe playing this deck... though I got some control decks that are worse....

This deck still lets your opponent *PLAY* against you. They'll be overwhelmed and probably lose and be frustrated, but they still will have played against you.

An evil deck will make the opponent feel as though they never got to actually play their deck. I've heard my deck "Pure Evil", for example, described as "watching me play Solitaire".

Ahah, I understand the distinction. And I understand the sentiment expressed in your quote too. I know you like to do a lot of "magic number" stuff, take a look at this deck. You built a deck around the number 3, maybe a simular structure works around the number 4? I am asking because I have noticed the ratios seen in this deck (both card type and mana curve) in many aggro decks recently. The 4 artifacts are flexible, I've seen decks exactly like mine but have 4 enchantments, or 4 planeswalkers (Jace 1.0 in a BLUE aggro deck my friend has), or simply 24 lands instead of 20.

Yeah, I haven't looked at it that much, but I have noticed that trend as well. From a rough glance it looks like it has a good flow to it, so there's gotta be something to it =]

Wow, took me a while to see this. Sure I'l check it out.

haha thanks dude. Can't wait to see this hit the top! (it looks like it will)

haha no problem man. I can't either, although it currently looks like my Legacy Deathtouch deck will first.

Eh, I thought about him, but I dont think his ability will be too useful in an aggro deck, and running the Lacerators instead gives me more guys to swing with. Under normal conditions it is hard to block so many vamps. With the removal thrown in (why the hell isnt Vendetta in ever back aggro deck?), its impossible.

It takes you 5 turns to play DoJ. It usually takes me about that many to win. Wanna race? Even if you cast DoJ you are still at almost no life, and my Bloodghasts come right back and eat you.

Pyroclasm is the true weakness of this deck. A turn 3 Pyroclasm woud seriously disrupt my game, but who plays Pyroclasm in Standard? Seriously. The key to sucess is to know your meta-game. This deck can outrace RDW, destroys Planeswalkers before they can get more than one on the field, and is simply too fast for Jace Control to contain. True, this deck (like all T2 decks) has its bad matchups, but the reason this deck is getting so much attention is that none of its bad matchups are widely played right now. I mean, RWU, Grixis, all the red control decks are dead in the current standard, since most of them relied on Bloodbraid Elf and/or Earthquake as their main red card.

That said, the SB does provide some defence against red control, though the amount of defence avaliable to mono-black is slim.

deck thinnning my man, by doing so they remove x 2 lands from there deck increasing the chance of pulling something juicy, once they have enough land on the board to be established, and everything in here is quiet low mana cost, so it does make sence.

hey man awsome quick as hell deck, i too like the bloodghasts in there i think with fast black its easy to run outta cards at least if you do each time you draw and play a land youve still got a creature into the bargining, ok now for the contoversial bit, i'm absoulutley obscessed with grasp of darkness i see it as the black lightning bolt particualy in mono black where the two black mana is not a problem over the 1 in say doomblade, but look -4 -4 for two mana, gets round the destroy non black creature problem gets round the indestructable problem and how many creatures are rated so highly as for there mana curve they manage to defend on 4 and are so bolt proof and also urge to feed proof, ok you loose the chance of tapping your vampires, but with a deck like this i figure there tapped most of the time anyway as your attack attack attack, and so you will raley get the chance to use the ability, so for me its grasp of darkness, these have found there way into most of my black decks i rate them so highly,
anyway just one mans opinion, awsome deck as usual and thanks for the comments left on my proliferate deck,

if you get chance could you take a look at my new deck skittering hell, as i just threw it together bout an hour ago lol, cheers and well done on this i'm liking as we speak if i havnt already.

Thanks for the comments man. I'll be sure to check it out. The main reason ISNT deck thining actually, its the Bloodghasts, but both are good reasons.

I was wondering this too. Crazy fast deck my man, and major kudos for running vamps. I've been looking for and building loads of vampire decks (by far my favorite creature type) and this would REALLY piss off my friends :D

Thanks man! If you like vamps, check out some of my other black decks. Most are vamps

Not to put your comment down, as it's a fair point, but I think this deck is for standard. And Counterbalance and sensei's divining top are no where near standard anymore. Just saying.

^^ is exactly right. I play in Standard Opens, and don't play other formats in serious tourniments

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In a game that lasts ~5 turns, I find his downside to not matter in the slightest.

Interesting idea, but I feel the CMC slot the Reverant occupies is currently filed with strictly better cards, so I probibly will not include her.

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think i was the 100th congratz dude !

He is definitely an amazing card, and is something I would 100% include if I had a 79. The choice between him and Captivating was very very close. My final decision came down to the fact that Captivating's +1/+1 completely dominates the Aggro matchup for me, while Demon of Death's Gate (Which is nessissary for all forms of ramp decks) also fills most of the roles that the Nighhawk does.

Second turn demon of deaths gate is pretty sick.

Turn 1: pulse tracker
Turn 2: Pulse tarcker and Vampire lacerator....and oh wait sac 3 creatures and pay 6 life

DEMON OF DEATH'S GATE!!!!!!!

^^ Yup. He eats aggro and ramp decks alive.

terrible...

If my oponent has more than 10 life by the time I am capible of playing him, either I'm playing vs Soul Sisters or I am terrible at magic. Since Soul Sisters is not Standard Legal anymore and I have placed top 8 at an Open, so logic tells us that My oponent will not have more than 10 life by the time I am capible of playing Sorin :)

Seriously, he is one of the worst planeswalkers printed, since he has too high a CMC for aggro and in control why would you play him if you can play Lilina Vess?

No problem mate. Trust me, I've seen much dumber comments... like suggesting a 3 CMC non-standard legal card when a standard legal functional reprint exists. Especially when the card (both versions) are terrible.

Thank you mate :)

In my testing it is fast enough to be ok with 4 3-drops.