Again, from my experience, you would be better off going along the black deck route and essentially control the board while you swing in with your vamps.
@red shadows
Actually Delver isn't that bad for vamps. With Cavern of Souls you can protect your important vamps. Additionally with Duress you can remove their counters pretty easy (they have to waste their snapcaster to counter, which also means tehy need 4 mana open, not just 2). Additionally, black vampires have plenty of flying among its big finishers (Nocturnus, Olivia, Nighthawk, Aristocrat). Vampires biggest weakness before was that it had no unified thing going for it. It was all over the place. With Nocturnus and Nighthawk, they could help unify black vamps as a sort of Mono-B control.
Anyway /endrant
Honestly, I still feel hellkite isn't the greatest in your deck and by losing blood artist, you do nothing but weaken your Aristocrat even more.
Thundermaw Hellkite, while rather nice, isn't really your best choice.
He is best with WR or GR (ways to keep using you OVER AND OVER). You have enough creature control for the most part.
Reverb isn't the greatest. Personally (again more my personal opinion) I would switch the Reverb and the incinerates with Duress (help protect your guys) and the Exanguinate with another Sign in Blood to better your draws. Lets just say from testing, I have found exanguinate to not be ther greatest unless you are played the ( I create infinite mana) heartless deck
Lol thats what I think.
All you need is Knight of (fill in the blank)
Sublime Angel
Catherdal of War
maybe duty bound dead for some early game exalted set up.
You could also abuse Disciple of bolas really easy to because exalted lasts until end of turn. So you swing, your guy is say, a 6/6. He probably won't die. Then you cast disciple, saccing the dude, and you gain 6 life and draw 6 cards.
Barter in Blood really isn't very useful in my opinion. Costs too much, and hurts you too. Additionally, there is little control (edict effect so it's there choice) and it has not other big abilities.
Geth's Verdict is cheap, efficient, and makes them lose a life which is nice.
Personally i suggest maybe switching the Aristocrats with Nocturnus. Nocturnus is a blowout with vampires. Additonally with Gut shot-delver, Tragic SLip- Zombies, Pillar of Flame- WRR/RG aggro everywhere, Aristocrats 1 toughness is a very real liability. Additionally, with the amount of flies right now, she is not very much of a big threat right now.
I would also suggest in investing in some Black CLeave Cliffs and Cavern of SOuls. Those will help your mana base and make casting Nocturnus turn 4 fairly viable.
Personally i think if you wanna try and run vampires you have to go along the same route as UB zombies, your deck is mostly bakc and only uses red for BR cards like olivia.
You would essentially play a little bit of black control, until you can get Nighthawk and Noctunus Online. Since Olivia and Captain are also black, they won't affect Noctunus's triggers.
As long as there are cards named "Sword of X and Y" or Batterskull, the rings will not see play. The current suite of equipment are just too powerful for anything that is not retardedly overpowered to be playable sadly.
I would say a BW exalted deck
Your big win cons being
1) Sorin, Lord of Innistrad- You spit out a 1/1 lifelink, Exalted every turn and the token you swing with will next you Massive amounts of life REALLY fast.
2)Vampire Nighthawk- The lifelink with exalted will make you gain some pretty god life
3) Tormented Soul- This is the big fun guy. As you keep spitting out more guys, he gets bigger, and since he is unblockable, they are going to take the damage to the face. With exalted, he may very well end up being their big winners.
I swear the guy that won our FNM here today was seriously running a RG stuffy doll deck.... He managed to beat delver, Naya Pod, Naya humans, and Mono-W humans by essentially going
Stuffy doll
Stuffy doll/Phyrexian Metamorph
Blasphamous Act
Fun little cards I have found are Cackling COunterpart and Infinite Reflections.
Being able t create a new stuffy doll at instant speed is fun.
And Dropping Infinite Reflections on Stuffy is just god brutal (oh now I have 6 stuffies???)
I am currently playing a mono-red Past in flames version and honestly it runs VERY well.
The only things that kill me Pre-sideboard are Thalia and Grafdiggers Cage(which NO ONE runs mainboard), after the side, I can get aroudn them pretty easy with Ancient Grudge and Devil's Play.
The deck is nasty though, so long as I have 2 lands, I can usually trigger and just overwhelm them. Counters are not to bad since I can still cast them again with my past in flames.
Because people think jumping through as many hoops as possible to get a creature that is just worse than Titans is a good thing.
Really.... I mean really?????
Ok, you are now officially banned from critiquing cards.
How can you compare a 1U 1/1 flyer with a 6 cmc beast that EVERYONE admits is way to overpowered. I mean really?????? How about you go ahead and compare Elesh Norn with Silverblade Paladin???? Because it totally makes sense....
Um isn't being a rogue deck the whole reason why Solar Flare and Frites even did good to start with??? With no one prepared to deal with those decks, they were able to crush people, but are quite easy to hate out.
What are you casting to cash on the number of spells played this turn, then?
Its called standard storm buts its not a true storm deck. Essentially the win con is (depending on the build) to win with Burning Vengence (just keep falshbacking everything and keep the machine running) or by using Devil's Play (You can easily generate over 30 mana in one turn)
@red shadows
Actually Delver isn't that bad for vamps. With Cavern of Souls you can protect your important vamps. Additionally with Duress you can remove their counters pretty easy (they have to waste their snapcaster to counter, which also means tehy need 4 mana open, not just 2). Additionally, black vampires have plenty of flying among its big finishers (Nocturnus, Olivia, Nighthawk, Aristocrat). Vampires biggest weakness before was that it had no unified thing going for it. It was all over the place. With Nocturnus and Nighthawk, they could help unify black vamps as a sort of Mono-B control.
Anyway /endrant
Honestly, I still feel hellkite isn't the greatest in your deck and by losing blood artist, you do nothing but weaken your Aristocrat even more.
He is best with WR or GR (ways to keep using you OVER AND OVER). You have enough creature control for the most part.
Reverb isn't the greatest. Personally (again more my personal opinion) I would switch the Reverb and the incinerates with Duress (help protect your guys) and the Exanguinate with another Sign in Blood to better your draws. Lets just say from testing, I have found exanguinate to not be ther greatest unless you are played the ( I create infinite mana) heartless deck
All you need is Knight of (fill in the blank)
Sublime Angel
Catherdal of War
maybe duty bound dead for some early game exalted set up.
You could also abuse Disciple of bolas really easy to because exalted lasts until end of turn. So you swing, your guy is say, a 6/6. He probably won't die. Then you cast disciple, saccing the dude, and you gain 6 life and draw 6 cards.
Geth's Verdict is cheap, efficient, and makes them lose a life which is nice.
Personally i suggest maybe switching the Aristocrats with Nocturnus. Nocturnus is a blowout with vampires. Additonally with Gut shot-delver, Tragic SLip- Zombies, Pillar of Flame- WRR/RG aggro everywhere, Aristocrats 1 toughness is a very real liability. Additionally, with the amount of flies right now, she is not very much of a big threat right now.
I would also suggest in investing in some Black CLeave Cliffs and Cavern of SOuls. Those will help your mana base and make casting Nocturnus turn 4 fairly viable.
You would essentially play a little bit of black control, until you can get Nighthawk and Noctunus Online. Since Olivia and Captain are also black, they won't affect Noctunus's triggers.
Your big win cons being
1) Sorin, Lord of Innistrad- You spit out a 1/1 lifelink, Exalted every turn and the token you swing with will next you Massive amounts of life REALLY fast.
2)Vampire Nighthawk- The lifelink with exalted will make you gain some pretty god life
3) Tormented Soul- This is the big fun guy. As you keep spitting out more guys, he gets bigger, and since he is unblockable, they are going to take the damage to the face. With exalted, he may very well end up being their big winners.
Stuffy doll
Stuffy doll/Phyrexian Metamorph
Blasphamous Act
Being able t create a new stuffy doll at instant speed is fun.
And Dropping Infinite Reflections on Stuffy is just god brutal (oh now I have 6 stuffies???)
The only things that kill me Pre-sideboard are Thalia and Grafdiggers Cage(which NO ONE runs mainboard), after the side, I can get aroudn them pretty easy with Ancient Grudge and Devil's Play.
The deck is nasty though, so long as I have 2 lands, I can usually trigger and just overwhelm them. Counters are not to bad since I can still cast them again with my past in flames.
Really.... I mean really?????
Ok, you are now officially banned from critiquing cards.
How can you compare a 1U 1/1 flyer with a 6 cmc beast that EVERYONE admits is way to overpowered. I mean really?????? How about you go ahead and compare Elesh Norn with Silverblade Paladin???? Because it totally makes sense....
Lol true
But a stasis legacy deck technically does win by resource denial and ONLY resource denial.... well that and skipping their next 60 turns....
Seriously... who would have ever thought that SKIPPING your next 60 turns would actually be considered a win con?????
Its called standard storm buts its not a true storm deck. Essentially the win con is (depending on the build) to win with Burning Vengence (just keep falshbacking everything and keep the machine running) or by using Devil's Play (You can easily generate over 30 mana in one turn)