Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) modModern
Approx. Value:
$141.19

0 Likes 1 Comments
Avg. CMC 2.92
Card Color Breakdown
Card Type Breakdown

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Main Deck - 60 cards, 18 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (26)
2 Basilica Screecher
$0.10 Creature - Bat
4 Blood Artist
$1.96 Creature - Vampire
2 Cartel Aristocrat
$0.17 Creature - Human Advisor
4 Doomed Traveler
$0.04 Creature - Human Soldier
2 Obzedat, Ghost Council
$0.61 Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor
4 Rhox Faithmender
$6.05 Creature - Rhino Monk
4 Vampire Nighthawk
$0.28 Creature - Vampire Shaman
4 Vizkopa Guildmage
$0.52 Creature - Human Wizard
Sorcery (4)
4 Lingering Souls
$0.35 Sorcery
Enchantment (3)
1 Blind Obedience
$1.76 Enchantment
2 Exquisite Blood
$17.53 Enchantment
Planeswalker (2)
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
$2.30 Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
Land (25)
4 Godless Shrine
$10.13 Land - Plains Swamp
4 Isolated Chapel
$1.86 Land
2 Orzhov Guildgate
$0.23 Land - Gate
6 Plains
$0.09 Basic Land - Plains
7 Swamp
$1.22 Basic Land - Swamp
2 Vault of the Archangel
$0.87 Land
Sideboard - 15 cards, 6 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Instant (4)
3 Ultimate Price
$0.17 Instant
1 Victim of Night
$0.16 Instant
Sorcery (11)
3 Appetite for Brains
$0.06 Sorcery
3 Duress
$0.05 Sorcery
2 Merciless Eviction
$0.35 Sorcery
3 Sever the Bloodline
$0.09 Sorcery

Notes
 
The most exciting Orzhov card to me is Obzedat, Ghost Council, which is a very aggressive card, so I'm going to focus on building an aggressive deck. It feels wrong to play an Orzhov deck that's just mindlessly attacking, though, so instead I'm going to build around Vizkopa Guildmage. Vizkopa Guildmage's second ability is extremely potent, since gaining large amounts of life is generally pretty easy to do, as it usually doesn't win a game by itself.

However, with Vizkopa Guildmage and Exquisite Blood, gaining a single life actually does create an infinite loop that will win the game by itself. Exquisite Blood isn't a great card by itself, so I don't want to draw a lot of it, but I want my Vizkopa Guildmage to be good even without it. Fortunately, with other lifegain (importantly, lifegain that doesn't cost mana the turn I'm gaining life, so I have mana to use the Guildmage's ability), I can just use the Guildmage to make my opponent lose a huge amount of life. Rhox Faithmender combines with Blood Artist and lifelink to get completely out of control pretty easily—and all the life I'll gain means I'll have plenty of time to find my combo!
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  • Christopher Rayl (04-Feb-2013 19:34)

    http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/1156