Eddy Markov, Revamped
Edgar Markov Re-Vamped
Lets look at our deck piece by piece beginning with our Commander, Edgar Markov. First look gives us a 4/4 for 6 in Mardu. Not especially great truth be told. Haste and First Strike? Alright showing signs of improvement yet at the same time meh. +1/+1 to our different vamps in combat, still meh. Putting a 1/1 vamp into play with each cast vampire? Bingo, lets use that. That is fundamentally the best Vampire generator you could ever. Truly I need him safe in the Command Zone and don't generally expect putting him into play.
Mardu Mana
You would think that white, black, and red are the less likely colors to find ramp in so lets check out a few alternatives. Average Ramp first, we have Sol Ring, Signets, and Command Sphere. Wayfarer’s Bauble is an incredible bit of Ramp on the off chance that you don't have green in your deck. Cabal Coffers, Cabal Stronghold, and Urborg are our better lands for the deck. Phyrexian Altar, Ashnod's Altar, and Black Market work brilliantly for us as we will have a lot of Vampires to use for mana. I'm tossing K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth in here as well becuase he is fundamentally "free" mana for the remainder of our deck. Lastly, Herald’s Horn to lessen our vampire's cost and some of the time we get to draw an additional card each turn. I've never had an issue with casting my spells in this deck so I think this is an ideal amount of ramp.
Card Draw
The majority of our card draw will be in Black so it will cost us a little life yet, guess what? That’s all good for this deck! We have 40 life to start with and that is plenty. I'm typically quite down on Phyrexian Arena, however it can really help us here. Normally though, it’s a tad overused. Next up is Skullclamp. Pay 1 and lose a token to draw 2? All day, every day. Same for Vampiric Rights (additionally an absolute flavor win). Anje Falkenrath lets us run through our deck gradually except if we have a Falkenrath Gorger out. At that point the entirety of our vampires have Madness and we can churn through our deck as long as we have the Heart of the Cards on our side. Champion of Dusk is somewhat more contingent as he really needs heaps of vampires on the field when he comes in. Luckily will play boat loads of vampires! Smothering Abomination can be an absolute force of nature with in this deck so we will excuse it for not being a vampire. Our last two are simply bonkers we have Ad Nauseam and Necropotence. Typically I keep these hand until I'm looking to either win...or discover something to prevent me from biting the dust. I've additionally got Razaketh, the Foulblooded and Bolas' Citadel as pseudo-card draw.
Spread the Sickness
Here are our other vampire token makers. We don’t need a bunch as our Commander makes a huge amount of vampire tokens for us. So all of our vampires consequently make us a vampire and Anointed Procession just over powers Edgar’s Eminence trigger. Bloodline Keeper and Pawn of Ulamog are the primary other Vampire generators for our deck.
WIN Now
Okay so you're playing for your 3rd hour and the Meren player continues making you sacrifice all your cool stuff. Well how about we simply play one massive turn and wipe everybody off the board so we can move to game two? First we need to find a way to deal damage to our opponent’s with something along the lines of Blood Artist, Falkenrath Noble, and Cruel Celebrant. Next we need Phyrexian Altar as well as K'rrik to let us play our one drops basically for free. Finally, we need to replay our one drops again and again and again. Here we have Enduring Renewal and Cloudstone Curio. With Enduring Renewal out we can sacrifice Quag Vampires (or any of our one drops) to Phyrexian Altar for one Black Mana. Quag Vampires (or insert random one drop) comes back to our hand, and now we have one Black mana left over and a 1/1 Token in play. Do this repeatedly and we end up with an endless number of Vampire Tokens. With any of our damage flinging vampires in play we wind up doing infinite damage to the table and killing them all. K'rrik can replace Phyrexian Altar in this case if we also have Anointed Procession in play to double up our tokens. If we have two life drainers we can gain 2 life each time to counterbalance paying life for our Black mana pip on our Quag Vampires. Cloudstone Curio replaces Enduring Renewal as long as we have two one drops out on the board.
Rounding Out the Deck
Clearly, this is anything but an entire 100 card deck. The remainder of my deck contains 8 pieces of removal; Two board wipes and 6 targeted. You're playing White and Black so take your pick! Everything from here on out is your decision, just look through your Vampire collection and pick the ones you love the most. Try and keep your casting cost nice and low (one and two drop vampires) as these are the easiest way for you to keep your Vampire militia adequately supplied.
Deck-stras!
On the off chance that you really need to teach your playgroup a lesson and want to toss your budget in the trast, here are a few upgrades you can throw in your deck. Notice the only tutor effect we have in here is Razaketh. I purposefully don't care for having many tutors in the deck since I feel they take too much of the variance out of the game. They do however make your decks significantly more reliable. Vampiric Tutor is totally on subject here and an awesome card to add. Diabolic Intent and Demonic Tutor are likewise fabulous alternatives for this deck. Furthermore, obviously Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond is a fantastic combo to insta-execute your table (and a flavor win for sure). Again I simply don't feel like that is a fun combo to win with and decided not to play it, but it is very effective.
Creature (39) 1x Anje Falkenrath 1x Blood Artist 1x Blood Burglar 1x Bloodcrazed Paladin 1x Bloodline Keeper Flip 1x Bold Impaler 1x Captivating Vampire 1x Champion of Dusk 1x Child of Night 1x Cruel Celebrant 1x Dark Impostor 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir 1x Duskborne Skymarcher 1x Falkenrath Gorger 1x Falkenrath Noble 1x Guul Draz Vampire 1x Insolent Neonate 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 1x Kalastria Highborn 1x Malakir Bloodwitch 1x Markov Blademaster 1x Martyr of Dusk 1x Pawn of Ulamog 1x Pulse Tracker 1x Quag Vampires 1x Rakish Heir 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded 1x Selfless Spirit 1x Shadow Alley Denizen 1x Smothering Abomination 1x Stromkirk Captain 1x Stromkirk Noble 1x Tithe Drinker 1x Vampire Cutthroat 1x Vampire Lacerator 1x Vampire Neonate 1x Vampire Nighthawk 1x Vicious Conquistador 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan Land (35) 1x Arcane Lighthouse 1x Blood Crypt 1x Bojuka Bog 1x Cabal Stronghold 1x Command Tower 1x Dragonskull Summit 1x Evolving Wilds 1x Godless Shrine 1x Marsh Flats 6x Mountain 6x Plains 1x Scoured Barrens 11x Swamp 1x Terramorphic Expanse 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Enchantment (7) 1x Anointed Procession 1x Black Market 1x Enduring Renewal 1x Necropotence 1x Phyrexian Arena 1x Phyrexian Reclamation 1x Vampiric Rites Sorcery (3) 1x Damnation 1x In Garruk's Wake 1x Vindicate Artifact (10) 1x Ashnod's Altar 1x Bolas's Citadel 1x Cloudstone Curio 1x Commander's Sphere 1x Herald's Horn 1x Phyrexian Altar 1x Rakdos Signet 1x Skullclamp 1x Sol Ring 1x Wayfarer's Bauble Instant (5) 1x Ad Nauseam 1x Anguished Unmaking 1x Final Payment 1x Mortify 1x Utter End
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