The Complete Guide to Vampire Tribal in EDH
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Vampire tribal is the first of many of our archetype tribal guides here on youtube, and we've started off with one of the best tribes in edh. We talk about what vampires does in commander, how they play, and what the best vampire cards are as well.
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I believe the craziest new blood would be guilt leaf archdruid, whenever you cast a vampire you draw a card, and tap 7 vampires to gain control of all lands target player controls.
Also: great New Blood targets would be nearly any Sliver card. If my First Sliver was taken and the text was changed to "[Vampires] you control have cascade" I almost couldn't be mad
That would be awesome! Find a slivers opponent and spam new blood on them
@@NitpickingNerds find someone who isn't me, preferably
This was my first thought
Sanctum Seeker: EACH opponent loses life, not just the one you are attacking. Great video for my favourite Commander deck. Thanks!
There's a fun thing I once did with New Blood while playing Edgar. My friend was playing a dinosaur tribal deck with Gishath, Sun's Avatar at the helm. I took that one, hit him back with it, and flipped 10 cards because I had lords already, and put all vampires from among those 10 cards straight onto the field. Ate a fat board wipe almost immediately, but it was a hilarious moment.
That's super epic. Now we feel bad for calling that card "medium!"
Thanks for the great content!
I can’t wait for Elves!! It would be awesome to see a deck list from each of you for every tribe that you cover.
Other tribes on my most wanted list are:
Humans
Sea Monster(kraken, octopus, leviathan, serpent)
Angels
Soldiers
Legendary tribal
Thanks for the vid, been playing Standard for years, fallen out of love with it since MTGA is just net deck tier 1s. Fell in love with commander and just constructed a mono black Sorin deck, this vid helped alot with ideas!
Nothing hurts more than having your kumena, tyrant of orazca taken with new blood. Tap one vampire: make kumena unblockable. Tap 3 vampires: draw a card. Tap 5 vampires: put a +1+1 counter on each vampire you control. It hurts man. That being said... merfolk please
New front runner for best vampire text switch!
Oh man. I can confirm this to be very true. I've stolen my friend's Kumena with New Blood while playing my Edgar, numerous times before, and it's just the greatest feeling in the world for me, and the absolute worst for him.
If you use New Blood to take the Ur-Dragon, it now becomes the Ur-Vampire, a 10/10 flying Vampire Avatar, reduces Vampire spell costs by 1 uncolored mana, and whenever you attack with any number of vampires you draw that many cards and put a permanent on the battlefield from the drawn cards.
New blood stealing Omnath Locust of Rage is hilarious! Landfall making Vampires, dying vampires pinging the enemies! So much fun!
My heart would love a Zombie Tribal Video, maybe Angels, Merfolk? Great job guys!!!
All sweet tribes! Geez we have a lot of stuff to get to :O
literally built my edgar markov deck like a week ago. your timing is terrifying
Comming here from crimson vowl.
Maybe a recap including the new cards would be nice!
Great video!
Oh man I've never seen that card New Blood before and my Krenko, mob boss deck hopes I never do! But here are some good cards to steal with it that I havent seen mentioned.
1. Crested Sunmare
2. Grave Titan
3. Dragonmaster Outcast
4. Rampaging Baloths
5. Myr battlesphere
Since Kaheera came out, I've been slamming Cats and Dinosaurs pretty often, so those tribes would be cool. I love this series concept, can't wait to see whichever ones y'all decide to make!
Oh if these do well, basically expect a million of them!
I had my Krenko stolen by New Blood before. Ruined the game.
Really? Did the game just end?
@@NitpickingNerds ofc not... he just whipped everyone's ass badly. My Krenko had a thornbite staff attached (no sac outlet at the time). The thief had a Viscera Seer and a Fevor out. It was brutal. No one could respond. He just made a million vampires and killed us all.
Did it made more vampires or goblins but thornbite staff is awesome
I've done that before but somebody killed it immediately so I couldn't activate it
My bro refuses to play krenko against my vamp deck cause I've stolen krenko around 6 times at this point. He never gets more than one tap with krenko.
I'm learning so much right now... :) I play tribal vampire and some stuff I already had do to having some that I was collecting. but yeah if your LGS has the Vampire commander deck still available I highly recommend it so you can get a great start some of the cards in here are actually in it so it's a great buy. check it out the one I'm talking about is the inastrad crimson vow one.
I play Edgar with possibility storm. It's great to mess up other people's plays, but it also lets you cast vamps from your library for free, and get more vamps because of Edgar. Bonus is playing low cost creatures to cheat out higher cost vamps, and getting 2 tokens in the process.
So, I bought the Edgar deck when it came out and have been tooling it for years. I have all of rhes cards in it but maybe 2. Makes me feel good about my deck building abilities.
I'm toying around with a new vampire build using Oloro as the general. I chose him mainly for access to blue to do a couple of combo lines
Matt Brady interesting he loves him some Vito
Love your videos! The fact htat nearly every video is around half an hour in contrast to all the 10 minute monetized to the max, youtube optimized shit everywhere makes them like a real entertainment format, where I dont have to look up the next video every 10 minutes and spend more time searching for videos then watching...
We are glad that you enjoy the videos. Thanks you!
I have always thought of making a Castlevania theme deck. Cards like Bullwhip, Castle Sengir, Midnight Duelist, Elite Inquisitor, Jump, wooden stake, any more. Also Dracula's body parts from Castlevania Two: Simon's Quest. Could you cover orcs? I would like to make a jank Lord of the Rings Mordor deck. Loved the video and have a lovely day. Tribe scout out.
“So black it hurts” - Beezy
Vona, Butcher of Magan is also not a bad choice for a commander in orzhov. great channel btw guys 👊
I think if the next tribe was also undead it would be a neat transition. Plus, everyone loves zombies! Goblins would also be fun
Yeah it's going to be interesting determining the order for these. It will most likely be audience vote mixed with general popularity
This video makes me want to do BW vampire tribal with Teysa as the commander. All the triggers but also tribal synergies.
ok, the garlic proof joke won me, subscribed
You should do one tribe a week I think
Elves, soldiers, goblins, zombies, wizards?
Or weird ones like beasts, clerics, dragons, or merkfolk.
I think we're doing three this week :P
I have i never ending EDH projekt. Mono Black all FOIL vampire deck. It is all foil now but there keep coming new cards, so i switch out cards from time time. Also i switch my commander from time to time. Hopes for a great new Baron Sengir, when legens comes out! 😍 and thanks for doing a great job with the Channel, Regards all the way from Denmark.
Thanks for the denmark regards, we appreciate them :D I have a foil Karador deck that has taken years to foil out and I'm like 80% of the way there! -Beezy
Nitpicking Nerds Beezy. Mutch show it on the Channel some day 😊
I’d love to see either a goblin tribal with wort boggart auntie as commander or an artifact tribal deck with daretti scrap savant at the helm
Steal Atogatog (6 instances of the word atog if you count it's name as two, which, I'm gonna, because a) hilarious, b) if you copied the card text into a word document, ctrl+f'd "atog" and replaced "atog" with "vampire", It's name becomes "Vampirevampire"
). It becomes:
Vampirevampire
Creature - Vampire Legend
Sacrifice an Vampire creature: Vampirevampire gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
This is the winner. There was no contest, but you win!
@@NitpickingNerds Ty, ty...
Zombies! Thatll be a massive video! And Wurms! Great idea fellas
haha, who would the wurms commander be?? Thank you
@@NitpickingNerds maybe mayael the anima?
Wurms has a legendary. Can't remember it's name but it's a low drop beast but gives opponents cards. I was tempted to build wurm tribal but it's surprisingly expensive...
Man I wish Vito had been revealed before this video came out, what a great card that abuses lifelink into damage AND provides another possibility to infinite out with your Exquisite Blood!
Of the top tribes, Im making an Ezuri Renegade elves deck rn and then I might make a Grenzo Dungeon Warden Goblins deck after. Id definitely like to see your guys's recs for those
If this series keeps going we are definitely going to touch on elves and gobbos :P
Edgar was my first commander deck!
Please do Minotaurs!!!
i once had an edgar markov deck, playing against a scarab god, new blood steal the scarab god changing zombie to vampire, game went swiftly in my favour
How about Mathas ? I know he’s not used in vampire tribal decks that often but it would be great to see if you guys could pull it off
A vampire deck with kaya, blood witch and maybe there's a card to give cruel celebrant hexproof for doomskar or blue,white, black replicating deck would be fun for sure with sacrificing Elenda and make beefy copies of her, there's alot to do and sets I've missed.
My favorite vampire has to be Falkenrath Aristocrat. I was sorta happy they took her ability and put it on a Commander. I wish she was legendary. The problem with running her is you end up wanting humans to sac to her, but also have vampires.
Ur-Dragon: each time a Vampire attacks draw a card, then put any permanent in your hand onto the battlefield?
Made a troll vampire deck with Thraximundar (I know, not a vampire) as my commander. Run a bunch of creature stealing spells and Captivating vampire just to use more of my opponents creatures as sac outlets for Thraximundar.
The Creature's i stole with New Blood: Scion of the Ur-Dragon, The Ur-Dragon, Arahbo (The cat commander). Some one over stole my Seahunter once hahaha. But also the New Anowan (The mill Rogue) would be really awesome to steal xD
In my Edgar Markov I tend to use these synergies:
• Sanctum Seeker + Reconnaissance - nobody has to die and yet you have all the attack triggers you need
• Oathsworn Vampire + Phyrexian Altar - with Edgar as a Commander it gets infinite death and ETB triggers so say hi to Impact Tremors/Purphoros or Blood Artist and his crew
And for New Blood target: Imagine getting Utvara Hellkite. You get 6/6 Vampire that creates 6/6 Vampires whenever your Vampire attacks. Repeat each turn until opponents are beat to pulp :D
I would love to see a video about wurm tribal
Your possibly going to have to do an updated Vamp tribal video soon.
Also why they heck would you not use Olivia Voldaren? Is it because shes a kill on sight commander/part of the 99? She gets bigger every time you ping something and being able to take control of the thing you ping is great. Yes she dies you loose whatever it is you have taken control of but its only a minor inconvenience.
In a mardu deck Vampire Nocturnus isnt actually that great. Hes only active MAYBE half the time.
Ideas for New Blood.
Gain control of your own Diregraf Colossus. "Whenever you cast a Vampire spell, put a 2/2 black Vampire creature token onto the battlefield tapped."
Krenko, Mob Boss "{T}: Create X 1/1 red Vampire creature tokens, where X is the number of Vampires you control."
Homing Sliver "Each Vampire card in each player's hand has vampirecycling {3}.
Vampirecycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Vampire card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.)" Not sure if slivercycling would swap or not.
I wonder which elf payoffs are the best, besides the one that is basically just another Edgar?
For Malakir Bloodwitch and being 'weird' with white protection; I think its probably due to the shaman aspect of the creature. Shaman are nature attuned, so perhaps this vampire is attuned in such a fine tuned way to their sunlight weakenss that it has gained protection from it. Maybe?
Licia is one of my favorite commanders, cause it plays into a lot of the synergies for vampires, is mardu, and isn't stupidly pushed like edgar
She is super cool overall!
Licia is one of my super jank commanders. Run her as a life hurts deck where I knock myself down as close to 1 as possible (sometimes TO 1) then do life total switches abusing the effects to gain extra life while my opponents lose even more. Can one shot outta nowhere but it wins VERY rarely. Still, one of the most fun wins I can pull off
I want to shout out vampire necropolis regent & Bloodlord of vaasgoth.
The blood thirst 3 can be brutal on a bunch of little vamps. Also heirloom blade, and cathar’s crusade
Drana Liberator of Malakir is my first and favorite Commander.
With New Blood you could use that scarecrow, the Reaper King and put it in your dragon deck
Haha, I'd like my vampires to also be vindicates, thanks!
Definitely have to add all the 1 drop vampires you can!
New blood najeela, now I get trapped attacking vampires when my vampires attack. She's pretty broken normally so as a vampire I'm sure she breaks the deck as well.
Take well-wisher now you gain life for each vampire or the elf that taps each elf for Mana now all vampire tap for a forest?
As much of a Halloween Baby that I am, and as much as Castlevania is a little nostalgia bomb for me, I can't do Edgar Markov because he's a smidge rich for my blood (at time of posting, ~$75). What'd y'all recommend for something on a more reasonable budget?
Pirate Tribal please, so mah friend can build it and my ninja tribal can stomp his ass
Lol, Yuriko vs Admiral Becket Brass?
@@NitpickingNerds Yes please!
I know I'm late to this party but I'm sad you guys didn't mention Anje Falkenrath. I made a casual vampire/ madness tribal that's super fun
24:05 hey I could hear Beezy's tummy rumbling too.
You liar!
New Blood story. I stole my son's omnath locus of rage and when I dropped a land I would get a 5/5 elemental that would bolt any target for 3 when I would sac it. Same was true for any other vamp that went to the yard.
Replace the word dragon on utvara hellkite flooding 6/6 vamps to the field for each attacking vamp?
I tend to replace stromkirk captain with stensia masquerade
I’m looking to build a new commander deck. I’m new to the game and format. is Edgar Markov still good?
New Blood and stealing Lathril went crazy!
could one do a dredge vampire deck... grave pact, golgari germination, desecrated tomb, fungal plots, life from the loom..Green Black or Black/White/Green.. you just need something to pop off when something dies or leave your graveyard. Bats , Saproling, maybe some Thrulls LOL
Steal Koma with new blood, replace Serpent with Vampire. Markov + Koma. This might be the so good it's unfun aspect you mentioned. All of your vampires - tokens, koma coils, etc, become tap downs.
I'm personally more of a fan of running the Orzhov Elenda vamps instead of Edgar. Still need some play testing for my Elenda deck.
Witch's Oven and Cauldron Familiar would be good in this deck.
Next game with Vampires...
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoy. You killed my Fodder. Prepare to die.
thx Nitpicking nerds XD
Lol we appreciate utter nonsense comments like this one
Goblins would be awesome. My favorite tribe, since I started playing during Onslaught block
Who's your favorite goblin commander?
We need an updated version ;)
New blood Yuriko, all vampires get insane combat damage triggers
New blood on Kopala, Warden of Waves or Marrow-Gnawwer and have fun
I really want Fodder to be a new creature type.
New blood. Took 1st sliver and gave all my vampires cascade. Completely changed the game.
Completely brutal!
Just saying the Sanctum Seeker drains EVERY opponent for each attacking Vampire. In Multiplayer this thing is actually a bomb. ^^
Winterhe4rt oh hell yes
Your Blade of the Bloodchief/Olivia Voldaren example was wrong. When you ping with Olivia with the blade equipped, she'd get 1 counter. If she pings a 1/1, she'd get 3.
Blade of the bloodchief is good if you’re doing some elenda the dusk rose shenanigans.
Most definitely, a million counters please and thank you
And now we have the Ozalith. Hell yeah, I put it in my Elenda deck.
Atla palani and switch all instances of egg with vampire could be pretty funny
Maybe you should do the tribes in some sort of logical progression. Start with the un-human tribes (vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc.), then popular fantasy races (elves, goblins, etc.), then do human variants (soldiers, knights, etc.), then humans, then angels, then demons, then dragons, then you can do other animals, and then the more abstract stuff like walls.
Daniel Zitnik I love the full five innistrad tribes
We might go based on popularity or by request volume, too! Not sure yet!
@@NitpickingNerds I love tribes. My tribes:
Humans + Angels
Vampires
Spirits
Werewolves
Zombies
Warrior (as Alesha/Mardu Clan Theme deck)
Phoenixes (really spellslinger phoenix)
Here's one I like and hold for just in case Thief of Blood.
New blood on Kaalia the vast. Throw big vampires at people while shutting down a Kaalia deck
Can we get a rework with this video including crimson vow
Scout tribal with Golos. There are only 7 decks on EDHREC and I think there are 147 "scouts" in Magic.
But then we could directly address Sakura-Tribe Scout when we peace out!
Vampires could be really fun, the lore is rich and could be developed further. Edgar IS broken, imenence is generally, but hey, its Mardu so it's so I dont think u can get too mad. I'd like a general that could tap to bit/kill/bring back or something. Like the new Mardu pinger but with vamp themes. Thanks!
Really liking how this video turned out, and we're looking forward to more!
I don't have any vampire cards but I came here because I wanted to make a deck for them. Newblood sounds hilarious against my friend who plays dragons helmed by Atarka, World Render.
Taking that to give my vampires double strike or taking Scourge of Valkas to deal x damage to a target where x is the number of "vampires" I control just sounds too funny not to do.
Do werewolves next!!!
Evelyn says hello like 2 years later lmao
Well, Edgar is definitely not budget, so I guess I’m building Olivia now!
new blood is one amazing card. i stole Kaalia one time with it. guess what happened when i attacked with my new found vampire.....
:D
What happened???
@@NitpickingNerds free vampires when attacked :)
If you changed Kaalia into a vampire, then you cheated. New Blood changes one creature type on a card, not all of them.
DINOSAURS PLEASE!
That's a tribe that has just recently broken out and already has a bunch of support
@@NitpickingNerds how about Slivers, angels, or demons?
For the card New Blood. Two words... Vampire Squirrels!
NICE VID
Ive taken Millicent with New Blood and its hilarious
What if you use New Blood on Noxious Ghoul?
Okay now we are talking, take THAT, non-vampires!
No love for Zagras? He's my commander while I save up for Eddy Marks
twilight prophet is good as well. with Edgar, annointed procession is great
I ran Edgar Markov, because i wanted to have access to Mardu colors. It's my least played deck for a long time now, and i'm probably going to take Edgar apart. I agree with what you said about him becoming "easy mode", as he very much does. The deck gets very boring to play, very fast. It's also just good without you really putting in any effort, and i don't like that Edgar is so strong without ever having to be cast. He basically just becomes akin to Craterhoof Behemoth late game.
Yeah, it's kind of no fun to do the EXACT same thing every game, some variance is good!
Yup, undeniably strong, unbearably boring. Granted, i just built a Sai, Master Thopterist deck that has a very similar effect as Edgar, but at least i actually have to cast my commander. The deck is WAY more fun too.
I agree with Edgar being a bit too much and boring. I never built him, but one of my friends did. I swap out Edgar for Licia when I play his deck.
Joe i pray you find some new work. Please keep your head high and stay Pawzitive 😉
more vamps MORE VAMPS!!!!!
Stealing an Avenger of Zendikar. Changing plants by vampire. You get an elemental Lord for your vampires.
Cesar Barrios I love it sooooo much
I would also run butcher of malakir in this deck.