B/W Ally-Vampire Life Drain (Standard)

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This deck is by no means competitive, but it is good fun if you play casually or attend FNM. Drain your opponent's life with multiple creature cards that deal damage while simultaneously gaining you health. Combo them together and cause mass life drain. Creatures in this deck are your main focus.

Tips for playing this deck:

[1] You pretty much just want to control the board as much as possible using multiple removal spells to slow your opponent down, all the while triggering your creature effects to drain their life. Kalastria Healer is the key card for this deck, once you have more than one on the field you can more than double the rate at which you drain your opponent's life.

[2] If you can, hold off on playing March From the Tomb until you have one/multiple Kalastria Healer's either on the field or in your graveyard that you can bring back with March From the Tomb. You will get so much more value out of March From the Tomb if you can do this (i.e. A LOT of life drain combos).

[3] Try and get Accursed Witch killed as soon as possible, play on turn 4 if possible. This is a great consistent trigger for Cliffhaven Vampire and Bloodbond Vampire later in the game.

[4] Switch out all copies of Grasp of Darkness for Stasis Snare if you come up against lots of bigger creatures (switch out one swamp for a plains if you do this though).

[5] Feel free to play 4 of Shambling Vent.

[6] The Vampire Envoy slot is changeable. Play whatever you feel you like more (Something like Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet could work if you have the budget for it, however I prefer Vampire Envoy for the Ally synergy and the life gain trigger).

[7] Replace the copies of Oath of Gideon with Transgress the Mind if you encounter any AOE/Board Wipe spells (Flaying Tendrils is very strong against this deck).