Arnyn (Vampires) by Killermath

Format: Commander

Commander: Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-black Vampire aristocrats deck helmed by Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist, who turns the death of any power-1-or-less creature into 2 life drained from an opponent and gained by you. The deck floods the board with tiny vampires and sacrifice fodder, then leverages death triggers to drain the table while drawing cards and recurring creatures. The primary win is incremental life-total attrition through Blood Artist, Vindictive Vampire, Vengeful Bloodwitch, Vraan, Executioner Thane, and Bastion of Remembrance, amplified by life-gain payoffs like Marauding Blight-Priest and Epicure of Blood. Recursion via Chthonian Nightmare, Victimize, Bloodghast, and Silversmote Ghoul keeps the engine fed. There is no infinite combo - the deck grinds opponents out over many turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Asylum Visitor
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Bairn
  • 1 Bloodflow Connoisseur
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Aerialist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Child of Night
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Epicure of Blood
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gas Guzzler
  • 1 Glass-Cast Heart
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Ichor Drinker
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marshland Bloodcaster
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Nightmare Unmaking
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sanguine Syphoner
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scourge of the Undercity
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Silversmote Ghoul
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vampire Hexmage
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vicious Conquistador
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan