Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Innistrad Tribal Block Constructed: The Vampires

Today's look is at the Vampires of Innistrad and how one could go about building a deck around them. Vampires in Innistrad seem to have a recurring theme of getting stronger once they damage a player so lets go with that.

First up, setting a very aggressive tone to the tribe is Stromkirk Noble, able to hit the board early and swing (hopefully) before any non-human blockers come down. So we can see already that it would help if we had him as a four of.  Some other cards that fit nicely into the deck are Markov Blademaster and Falkenrath Marauders as well as Stromkirk Captain to help our vampires take control of the board; speaking of controlling the board, we can throw in a couple of Olivia Voldarens too.

As I said earlier most of our vampires seem to have a thing for dealing combat damage to players, so why not double (or possibly triple) their output by adding Rakish Heir and Curse of Stalked Prey? Also, since our vampires need to do damage to players before we start getting any value out of them, we're going to need plenty of ways to mow down any blockers that might hinder us, so we'll add Brimstone Volley, Thunderbolt, and Tribute to Hunger. Brimstone Volley's morbid trigger might seem a bit unreliable but even three damage should be enough to clear away blockers in the early game and thats where this deck looks to set the pace. The fact that it is possibly good in the late game as well is just gravy.

One last thing we'll do is add a few Reforge the Souls to prevent us from running out of gas and we're done.

Creature: 21
3 x Falkenrath Marauders
4 x Markov Blademaster
2 x Olivia Voldaren
4 x Rakish Heir
4 x Stromkirk Captain
4 x Stromkirk Noble

Enchantment: 3
3 x Curse of Stalked Prey

Instant: 10
4 x Brimstone Volley
4 x Thunderbolt
2 x Tribute to Hunger

Sorcery: 3
3 x Reforge the Soul

+ 23 Land

Thats it for our look at the B/R Vampires of Innistrad, next up is (ugh) the R/G Werewolves.

Any suggestions or cool tech, please leave a comment! =)

Thank you for reading, 'till next time.