vampires by Aripash

Format: Commander

Commander: Mathas, Fiend Seeker

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Vampire tribal midrange build commanded by Mathas, Fiend Seeker. The strategy focuses on curving out efficient Vampire threats, generating card advantage through combat triggers and bounty counters, and overwhelming opponents with scaling tribal synergies. In the early turns, the deck develops low-cost creatures like Cordial Vampire, Tithe Drinker, and Florian, Voldaren Scion to establish board presence. Around Turn 5, it transitions into mid-game powerhouses such as Bloodline Keeper, Sanctum Seeker, and Edgar, Charmed Groom that buff the army and drain enemy life totals. The deck reaches critical pressure around Turn 6, threatening lethal combat damage backed by evasion and reach from Malakir Bloodwitch or Exsanguinate. While the list features resilient recursion through Olivia, Crimson Bride and Bloodline Necromancer, its lack of low-cost mana acceleration and instant-speed interaction leaves it vulnerable to faster combo decks and well-timed sweepers, requiring methodical combat execution across multiple turns to secure victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Anje, Maid of Dishonor
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Champion of Dusk
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
  • 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
  • 1 Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Kirol, Attentive First-Year
  • 1 Malakir Bloodwitch
  • 1 Markov Purifier
  • 1 Marshland Bloodcaster
  • 1 Mathas, Fiend Seeker
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Necropolis Regent
  • 1 New Blood
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sorin the Mirthless
  • 1 Stensia Masquerade
  • 1 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
  • 1 Stromkirk Captain
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Timothar, Baron of Bats
  • 1 Tithe Drinker
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vampire Nocturnus
  • 1 Vampire Socialite
  • 1 Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan