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Vampiric Council
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $273.62
Salt Sum: 24.25
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Commander

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Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Ward—Pay 3 life. Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Amalia Benavides Aguirre (lci) 221
1

Anthem

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Markov Baron

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Lifelink Other Vampires you control get +1/+1. Madness {2}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Markov Baron (mat) 14
1
Vampire Nocturnus

Play with the top card of your library revealed. As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

Creature
Vampire Nocturnus (plst) M10-118
1

Counters

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Cordial Vampire

Whenever Cordial Vampire or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Creature
Cordial Vampire (lcc) 189
1
Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Creature
Drana, Liberator of Malakir (lcc) 193
1
Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (lcc) 308
1

Creature

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Bloodvial Purveyor

Flying, trample Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player creates a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever Bloodvial Purveyor attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each Blood token defending player controls.

Creature
Bloodvial Purveyor (vow) 98
1
Preacher of the Schism

Deathtouch Whenever Preacher of the Schism attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever Preacher of the Schism attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Preacher of the Schism (lci) 113
1
Sanguine Savior

Flying, lifelink Disguise {W/B}{W/B} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When Sanguine Savior is turned face up, another target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Sanguine Savior (mkm) 230
1

Drain

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Indulging Patrician

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (m21) 219
1
Sanctum Seeker

Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sanctum Seeker (lcc) 209
1
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j22) 487
1

Draw

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Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 355
1
Champion of Dusk

When Champion of Dusk enters the battlefield, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.

Creature
Champion of Dusk (lcc) 188
1
Conjurer's Mantle

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a card that shares a creature type with that creature from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Equip {1}

Artifact
Conjurer's Mantle (moc) 12
1
Crossway Troublemakers

Attacking Vampires you control have deathtouch and lifelink. Whenever a Vampire you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Crossway Troublemakers (lcc) 190
1
Horn of the Mark

Whenever two or more creatures you control attack a player, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Horn of the Mark (ltr) 241
1
Markov Purifier

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Markov Purifier (vow) 241
1
Sanguine Spy

Menace, lifelink {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Sanguine Spy (snc) 93
1
Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Species Specialist (c20) 47
1
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
1
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (j22) 484
1

Instant

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Everybody Lives!

All creatures gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Players gain hexproof until end of turn. Players can't lose life this turn and players can't lose the game or win the game this turn.

Instant
Everybody Lives! (who) 338
1

Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (mkc) 248
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (mkc) 250
1
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
1
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (lcc) 328
1
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
1
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (lcc) 337
1
Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped. When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (clu) 241
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (mkc) 279
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mkm) 278
8
Secluded Courtyard

As Secluded Courtyard enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (lcc) 350
1
Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
1
Shineshadow Snarl

As Shineshadow Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Shineshadow Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shineshadow Snarl (lcc) 351
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mkm) 282
15
Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366
1
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (lcc) 367
1

Lifegain

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Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, Creeping Bloodsucker deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j22) 21
1
Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
1
Drana's Emissary

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Drana's Emissary (plst) BFZ-210
1
Gifted Aetherborn

Deathtouch, lifelink

Creature
Gifted Aetherborn (plst) AER-61
1
Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Nighthawk Scavenger (lcc) 203
1
Tithe Drinker

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Creature
Tithe Drinker (plst) C17-200
1
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (scd) 115
1
Verrak, Warped Sengir

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Verrak, Warped Sengir (dmc) 16
1

Protection

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Clever Concealment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Instant
Clever Concealment (onc) 5
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
1
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
1
Legion's Landing

Enchantment
Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort (plst) XLN-22Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort (plst) XLN-22
1
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (clu) 225
1
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
1
Talisman of Hierarchy

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Talisman of Hierarchy deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (lcc) 315
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
1

Recursion

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Drana, the Last Bloodchief

Flying Whenever Drana, the Last Bloodchief attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Creature
Drana, the Last Bloodchief (znr) 98
1
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
1
Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Rodolf Duskbringer (j22) 25
1

Removal

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Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Akroma's Vengeance (c20) 74
1
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
1
Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

Creature
Anowon, the Ruin Sage (voc) 118
1
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

Flying {X}{B}{B}: Target creature gets -0/-X until end of turn and Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief (plst) C17-112
1
Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
1
Legions to Ashes

Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all tokens that player controls with the same name as that permanent.

Sorcery
Legions to Ashes (bro) 215
1
Merciless Eviction

Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (onc) 120
1
Patron of the Vein

Flying When Patron of the Vein enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Creature
Patron of the Vein (lcc) 207
1
Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant
Utter End (lcc) 292
1
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (brc) 131
1
Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink {T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Vona, Butcher of Magan (lcc) 293
1

Sac Outlet

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Indulgent Aristocrat

Lifelink {2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Creature
Indulgent Aristocrat (lcc) 200
1

Tokens

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Bloodline Keeper

Creature
Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage (isd) 90Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage (isd) 90
1
Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Creature
Elenda, the Dusk Rose (lcc) 268
1
Glass-Cast Heart

Whenever one or more Vampires you control attack, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") {B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink. {B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Glass-Cast Heart and thirteen Blood tokens: Each opponent loses 13 life and you gain 13 life.

Artifact
Glass-Cast Heart (lcc) 199
1
Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle

Whenever one or more nontoken Vampires you control attack, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Creature
Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle (lcc) 133
1
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

+1: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink. −2: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0." −6: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Planeswalker
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad (lcc) 289
1
Sorin, Solemn Visitor

+1: Until your next turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink. −2: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying. −6: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature."

Planeswalker
Sorin, Solemn Visitor (ktk) 202
1

Tutor

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Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Standard caveat: this deck only contains cards I own, so not completely optimized. This is just a creature deck, where I use Amalia as my card draw engine supported by a bunch of cheap lifelinking vampires. Pristine Talisman is in here specifically to keep Amalia going. Calculated commander power level: 5.\n"}]}
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