vito life gain by user4890138

Format: Commander

Commander: Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black lifegain and drain strategy commanded by Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. Its primary objective is weaponizing life gain into direct life loss for opponents. Early turns focus on deploying cheap lifelink creatures such as Gifted Aetherborn and Vampire Nighthawk, establishing Vito on Turn 3, and chipping away at opponent life totals. In the mid to late game, the deck scales into catastrophic burst damage through cards like Blood Tribute, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate, and Wound Reflection. It also houses a lethal two-card infinite combo between Vito and Bloodthirsty Conqueror, which instantly eliminates the table once any life is gained or lost. While the deck boasts heavy creature removal and punishing passive tax effects via Polluted Bonds and Revenge of Ravens, its low land count, sparse ramp, and absence of protective spells leave it vulnerable to aggressive disruption and non-creature permanents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agonizing Syphon
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Alms of the Vein
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Banehound
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Blood Tithe
  • 1 Blood Tribute
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bloodvial Purveyor
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Consume Spirit
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Corrupt
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demon's Horn
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Drag to the Underworld
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Hideous End
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Malakir Bloodwitch
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Markov Crusader
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Paradise Plume
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Roadside Reliquary
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Shard of the Nightbringer
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Skymarch Bloodletter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin the Mirthless
  • 1 Sorin's Vengeance
  • 1 Sovereign's Bite
  • 1 Spin Out
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tavern Swindler
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tendrils of Corruption
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Vadmir, New Blood
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vampire Sovereign
  • 1 Vampire Spawn
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vampire's Kiss
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Wound Reflection