Vampirs by Arkwell

Format: Commander

Commander: Garza Zol, Plague Queen

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis Vampire Aristocrats and Midrange strategy helmed by Garza Zol, Plague Queen. The game plan balances aggressive Vampire tribal synergies with high-efficiency card advantage engines, such as Rhystic Study, The One Ring, and Black Market Connections. While the deck can pressure life totals through combat and incremental bleed effects from Vein Ripper, Blood Artist, and Ayara, First of Locthwain, its primary route to victory is assembling a two-card infinite life-drain combo. By pairing an effect that gains life whenever an opponent loses life (Exquisite Blood, Bloodthirsty Conqueror) with an effect that causes opponents to lose life whenever life is gained (Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, Marauding Blight-Priest), the deck generates an instant-speed table kill. Efficient black tutors provide high consistency, while premium Grixis interaction and counterspells protect the winning sequence.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Dreadbore
  • 1 Evelyn, the Covetous
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Garza Zol, Plague Queen
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Nightveil Predator
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stromkirk Captain
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Xander's Lounge