Burnmelt joins us to share an installment in his Jank Deck series, featuring a Red Yellow Vampire deck.
THE DECKLIST
SUMMARY
This week’s deck is a vampire tribal with yellow to supplement. There is potential for high aggression while maintaining value later in the game to contest midrange decks. Control heavy decks are the counter.
EARLY GAME
Building high risk pools: The ideal start is getting a strigoi pup out on turn 1, strigoi pureblood on turn 2, and blood dolls on turn 3. Suddenly you'll have a giant health advantage over your opponent, and your early game cards are mid game threats. The risk comes from a potential turn 5 misanthropia, magmataur or other AOE from the enemy which may bankrupt your investments. Be careful not to overcommit.
MID GAME
Use the pre-existing conditions: If you successfully life tapped a lot, just avoid the enemy army and make them come to you. Similarly if you were able to setup incubation chamber, favor throwing in freki huntress, duskwing angel or strigoi reaver to control the board. Sometimes this just straight up wins the game, but most of the time your opponent is forced to use hard removal on your standard units.
LATE GAME
Cost sharing combos: Enyo, Murder's Muse, Lord Valentine and Lamia's Kiss are your primary finishers. Pack mentality onto enyo in particular can be used to enable the empower. Snake pits are fodder for feeding Enyo, Wings of Abbadon and Oak of Dodona. Lamia's kiss can let your incubation chamber buffed Reaver steal 10 HP from your opponent's face as well. Stairway to Hades is for general end game value and a bit of protection against removal on critical cards. You can use it with blood doll to double buff adjacent minions. Frenzied units can potentially breach twice, allowing Lord Valentine to attack twice more as well.
42 CARDS
States rights: If you're missing a card or two, play without them, or sub in what you do have. For example, try throwing the goodest of boys, Cerberus Unchained, into an incubation chamber for the potential to smash for 18.