{"ops":[{"insert":"When someone looks at Vraan, they likely think of making him a mass sacrifice commander, which makes sense. His ability directly rewards your own creatures dying, and sacrificing your own creatures regularly on command is very good. However, he is likely better in the 99 of a commander deck, since on his own, his ability doesn't do much. Your opponents losing two life and you gaining two life once each turn isn't going to do much, and other cards already do this but don't have the same restrictions. With that in mind, I decided to make Vraan into a mono-black aggro deck.\n\nThe premise is simple. Due to how cheap Vraan is, you can get him out relatively quickly, which gets the strategy up and running quickly as well. The gameplan is to spam out a bunch of small creatures and then swing out to make your opponents make a choice. Do they take the small chip damage, or do they block a creature, kill it and take the damage anyway? This deck makes combat into a lose/lose scenario for your opponents, especially with a number of the cards in here having on death triggers.\n\nFear of Lost Teeth and Etched Familiar make your opponent(s) lose life and you gain life for them dying, rewarding you further if you have Vraan on the field. Infestation Sage and Doomed Dissenter also create creatures on death, so you have more bodies to through at people even though they just got rid of your creature. Novice Occultist and Guildsworn Prowler both draw you cards when they die, which allows you to get even more little guys out for the armada, as is the namesake of the deck.\n\nThere are also some cards in here that brings things back from the graveyard, like Vat of Rebirth and Crawl from the Cellar, making actually getting rid of anything that much harder. Some cards bring themselves back, like Persistent Specimen, Reassembling Skeleton and Cult Conscript, being guaranteed sources of bodies to throw at people. Vincent's Limit Break is an interesting case, since when it brings something back from the battlefield, it's base power and toughness is altered based on the tier of the spell chosen. So, if your Fear of Lost Teeth is about to die, you can pay 5 and have it triggers its ability, then return from the graveyard as a 7/2 that still can drain when it dies. And even if things stay in the graveyard, a Terror Tide is sure to make your opponents wish they just took the chip damage.\n\nThe thing that probably would immediately draw people's attention is the price of the deck, being under $25 USD. This is absurdly cheap, especially for commander decks. The reason as to such as that this allows anyone to easily pick it up, and with how simple the deck is, that point is emphasized further. I also just personally enjoy building budget decks more, since you have to use cards you otherwise probably wouldn't use. Sure, I could put in a Drivnod, Carnage Dominus and a Crypt Ghast and an Enduring Tenacity, but those are expected and can get stale. So, seeing cards such as Nullpriest of Oblivion and Transmogrant's Crown can be a breath of fresh air. \n"}]}