{"ops":[{"insert":"~cast vampires and build a reserve of opponent's cards in exile to beat them with~\n\nEvelyn is often enjoyed as a surprise mono black deck but I decided to be greedy with the manabase as usual in order to cover a red and blue splash that allows the deck to play much more interestingly and hold up mana rather than play everything other than Evelyn at sorcery speed. Evelyn I suppose is a fun counter to someone tutoring to top and forgetting she's flash in the command zone but I doubt that will ever happen in a non-casual game.\n\nThe blue splash enables a few key value pieces:\nprotection/recursion package in ghostly flicker, hide on the ceiling, and extraordinary journey as an offensive/tempo/killshot piece as well"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"running away with evelyn ETB advantage with displacer kitten and virtue of knowledge (which also ramps by doubling a fetch land on turn 3!)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"don andres who very much mitigates the downside of opponents' cards being less good on your side, and ramps"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"ashiok whose ult also lets us free cast cards exiled with evelyn!!!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"leyline of anticipation to truly play the much more interesting hold-up-mana version of the deck"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"theoretical duplication which looks for a strong token to populate with promise of aclazotz, goes CRAZY vs opps' persist/undying loops"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"rimefire torque on curve should enable some phenomenal value if it sticks around, we have few spells that are good to copy but we'll exile plenty of opps'"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThe red splash is additional bolstering of the deck's weaknesses and over-the-top card advantage:\nextra vampires with strong ETBs in thrillseeker and arsonist"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"mostly exile-synergy card advantage with nalfeshnee, party thrasher, wild-magic sorceror, molten echoes, charred/warped, prosper"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"rounder interaction package with vandalblast, d swat"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"chip damage with passionate archaeologist (especially good when you are playing big mana spells from exile for free!)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThe remainder of the deck is the straighforward vampires package. Rather than meathead board presence sorcery speed of boring bracket 2 tribal combat decks, I optimized for flash additional ETB value and playing on the stack. you CAN go hard on the board if you want to, but you need to be threatening to cast an opp's board wipe in exile to do so. Try not to cast any vampires until after evelyn is out, unless you absolutely need blockers or they're your ramp like master of dark rites. your perfect curve out is:\nt1 sol ring or master of dark rites"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"t2 spellskite, varmint, arcane signet, call the bloodline, passionate"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"t3 glass-cast heart, vantress visions + fetchland, ritual into evelyn"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"t4 ritual into evelyn and get a 1-2 drop vampire out too"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThere's no reanimate cheat for it, only convoking with a vampire team, but there is the cedh package of broodlord-saw, for finding wincons late game like malakir blood witch, or rescuing evelyn from on-board enchantment removal in promise of aclazotz if she was turned into another creature or wasteland if she was turned into a land. To protect her (mainly from an opponent's board wipe spell you cast) there is the onboard pseudo boots in kaya's ghostform, plus all the blink, spellskite and deflecting swat.\n\nThe deck can mull to 5 easily since your plan to get evelyn out early will regain you card parity in short order. Fish for ramp and a cheap trigger after casting her. don't keep more lands than you need to as once she enters her etb should provide the rest of your land drops.\n\nThe primer can't really cover how to play opponent's decks but I will run a log of games I won along with how I won them:\n\ndeck's 2nd outing allowed a Nekusar opp to get life totals low, pulled ahead via bloodwitch ETB sac and recur, then attacked opps down the rest of the way and killed them with Nekusar's own Winds of change\n\ndeck's 4th outing was stuck on 4 lands until t9 so committed to cordial vampire and preacher of the schism on board, eventually outlasting with giant lifelinkers\n\ndeck's 7th outing was on the back foot for much of the game and down to 3 life but with a lot of castable cards in exile, then was able to Vantress Visions copy Ashiok's ultimate, securing win with an opp's Dragonlord Dromoka, another opp's Reunion of the House which brought back 7 vampires from my yard, and 4 of my own vampires in exile, then cast Malakir Bloodwitch from hand and blinked it with Hide on the Ceiling\n"}]}