Type: Deck Idea
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Approx. Value:
$172.80
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Avg. CMC 2.27
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
releases on April 11, 2025!

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm
releases on April 11, 2025!

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Main Deck - 60 cards, 18 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (28)
1 Anowon, the Ruin Sage
$2.71 Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman
1 Blood Artist
$2.41 Creature - Vampire
4 Blood Seeker
$0.16 Creature - Vampire Shaman
3 Butcher of Malakir
$0.54 Creature - Vampire Warrior
1 Captivating Vampire
$9.80 Creature - Vampire
3 Guul Draz Vampire
$0.21 Creature - Vampire Rogue
4 Pulse Tracker
$0.19 Creature - Vampire Rogue
3 Quag Vampires
$0.11 Creature - Vampire Rogue
4 Vampire Hexmage
$0.47 Creature - Vampire Shaman
3 Vampire Lacerator
$0.09 Creature - Vampire Warrior
1 Vampire Nocturnus
$6.12 Creature - Vampire
Instant (12)
3 Dark Ritual
$3.48 Instant
3 Geth's Verdict
$0.16 Instant
3 Tragic Slip
$0.23 Instant
3 Virulent Swipe
$0.10 Instant
Land (20)
17 Swamp
$1.23 Basic Land - Swamp
1 Urborg
$17.91 Legendary Land
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
$47.45 Legendary Land
Sideboard - 0 cards, 0 distinct
No cards here. :(

Notes
 
I was taking a look at cards that had done well in a limited number of decks, and surprisingly there were a few that fit nicely in a vampire deck. I reached up to the high end on this one and found cost going a little out of control on the averages. In order to solve this, I decided to go with an aggressive aggro vampire approach with a few higher cost cards for very specific purposes. This necessitated the inclusion of Dark Ritual. With 34 cards below the 3-spot, the deck is very cheap, but it is the 3-, 4-, 5-, and 7-spot cards (the only rare and mythic non-land cards in the deck) that can make a huge difference with massive shifts in the balance of power. The resulting 22/12/1/1/1/0/3 curve averages 1.98, tied for the second-lowest cost among all of my vampire decks. I compared the contents to the 13 prior mono-black decks that mention "vampire" in the notes (even if it is a card title reference), and found one deck with 24, one with 21, and three with 20 in common, all of which is pretty low for a creature-type comparison, so I am pleased. The name refers (half-heartedly) to the idea behind barbell strategies with fixed income investinments.
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