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Evelyn's mana cost can be paid with all black mana, so this deck is almost all black with just a few cheeky splashes into blue and red.
The deck is split with two themes: Swamps and Vampires,
To power the swamp theme, the mana base is all swamps except for Cabal Coffers and Cabal Stronghold which are both powered up by the swamps and with Xander's Lounge as the only land that can produce blue and red in addition to black.
When mana flooded, cycle Xander's Lounge for the card draw. Saving it for color fixing should not be required. Do search for it with Corpse Harvester, Liliana's Shade, or Liliana of the Dark Realms when color fixing is required but basic swamps are more likely to be the right choice.
The mana rocks give 7 additional sources of the other colors, but it is not enough to reliably get for casting off color spells. The only off color spells are Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat which can be cast for free with the commander out, and Leyline of Anticipation which can start on the battlefield when it is in the opening hand. The sources of all colors can be used to activate abilities of any opponent's permanents that have been cast with Evelyn's ability. The creatures here can become vampires with Drana, the Last Bloodchief or Maskwood Nexus. Many of these have nice extra abilities that should not be forgotten. Scuttlemutt can change colors which interacts nicely with Sword of Hearth and Home. Bronze Walrus has scry that can setup Evelyn's exile ability. Ornithopter of Paradise has flying which is nice with the equipment or for blocking flyers.
Searching for more swamps also helps power the swamp theme. Skullclamp falls into this category because it does not deserve its own section and it does help draw more cards which could be swamps. Some of these put the lands onto the battlefield but others put the swamps into hand. Corpse Harvester can get swamps and also other zombies like Silversmote Ghoul and Korlash, Heir to Blackblade (or Vesper Ghoul). Evelyn's last ability is only once per turn, to get the most out of this we have Sword of Hearth and Home to blink Evelyn to get a second use while also searching out another basic swamp.
Cards that are powered up with more swamps include mana doublers, removal and discard effects based on swamps and equipment and creatures that have power and toughness bonus based on number of swamps. Liliana of the Dark Realms also has an ultimate ability to allow swamps to tap for 4 black mana. The big mana allows for activating the Liliana's Shade and Nirkana Revenant to power up to lethal, or threaten to at least - forcing a block.
Not all the creatures are Vampires so Maskwood Nexus is here to turn everything into Vampires. Also it turns everything into zombies for Corpse Harvester. There are may ways to create Vampire tokens to trigger Evelyn at least once per turn even without all the creatures being vampires. Vampire of the Dire Moon is great early as a chump blocker with deathtouch, later as a one mana vampire that triggers Evelyn, and lifelink when powered up by the equipment is good too. Viscera Seer is good as a sacrifice outlet and the scry synergizes with Evelyn's ability nicely, being a vampire is a happy bonus. Riptide Replicator can be powered out and activated to be {X}{8} to create a X/X vampire and {4} to create another on each future turn, but it is also fine when paying less to just be able to create a vampire each turn. Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet need a lot of mana to get going, and a creature to destroy to create Vampires, but it is possible to get there.
The three free spells can draw a bit of salt especially when there is no easy way to hard cast the blue and red ones. These are to protect the commander since Evelyn is key to getting access to a large amount of cards each turn. Deadly Rollick is an extra bit of removal which is something this deck is low on. Having the three best cards from this cycle in a mostly mono-black deck is the concept that resulted in brewing with Evelyn, the Covetous.
Flash from Vedalken Orrery and Leyline of Anticipation is to allow casting of non-instants during opponents turn, including those cast with Evelyn's ability. Leyline of Anticipation can be hard to cast. Using Vampiric Tutor to put Leyline of Anticipation on top of the library so Evelyn will exile it will allow the card to be cast with any mana. Evelyn allow lands to be played so an opponent's Island or Command Tower can also be used for blue if needed. Leyline of Anticipation can also be discarded to Call the Bloodline if there is no immediate way to cast it, or if Vedalken Orrery is already out.
Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots are here to protect the commander, but the haste can be helpful to attack with a big creature or activate Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet.
Dark Ritual and Jeweled Lotus can be added to the deck to allow for early casting of Evelyn, if that is the play pattern you want to go for. Other cards in the maybeboard were considered but I don't see an easy cards to remove to add any of these.
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