BITE ME by G8cy

Format: Commander

Commander: Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Vampire tribal aristocrats build led by Clavileño, First of the Blessed. The strategy revolves around deploying cheap Vampires in the early turns, attacking with them alongside Clavileño to transform them into Demons, and sacrificing them for immediate card advantage and 4/3 flying Vampire Demon tokens. As these flying threats accumulate, the deck converts combat trades and sacrifice outlets into lethal life drain using aristocrat payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim. The deck can also tutor for or draw into an instant-win combo featuring Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Marauding Blight-Priest. While the deck recovers well from non-exile sweepers due to Clavileño's death triggers, it remains vulnerable to exile-based board wipes, fast combo decks, and targeted removal aimed at its commander before combat attacks trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acolyte of Aclazotz
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bishop's Soldier
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Tribute
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bond of Discipline
  • 1 Call to the Feast
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Condemn
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desperate Bloodseeker
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Drana's Emissary
  • 1 Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Forsaken Sanctuary
  • 1 Gift of Fangs
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 March of the Canonized
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Pulse Tracker
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Queen's Bay Soldier
  • 1 Revival // Revenge
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shambling Vent
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treacherous Greed
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vampire Spawn
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vanguard of the Rose
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat