Okay, now to business. Here I have a nice mono-black vampire deck with enough control to keep your opponents in check. Most of the deck features cards from the Zendikar block, but it has a few cards that venture into other planes.
Creature Spells - 22
x4 Guul Draz Vampire
x4 Pulse Tracker
x4 Blood Seeker
x3 Vampire Hexmage
x2 Kalastria Highborn
x3 Vampire Nighthawk
x2 Bloodline Keeper
Black Spells - 16
x4 Doom Blade
x4 Feast of Blood
x4 Urge to Feed
x2 Unearth
x2 Footbottom Feast
Artifact Spells - 2
x2 Blade of the Bloodchief
x2 Leechridden Swamps
x18 Swamps
What it does:
With a plethora of ways to slowly drain the life out of your opponents early on, it's going to be easy to get at least some damage in each round. The deck can hold it's own against more than one opponent, thanks to the Pulse Trackers pinging everyone but you and the Blood Seekers keeping tokens, goblins, and elves at bay. Kalistia Highborn can make it rather unpleasant for your opponents to block or attack, since you can retaliate for just one mana. Speaking of mana, even some your lands can potentially drain their life away!
While the tokens for the flip cards aren't pretty, Bloodline Keeper makes for a solid addition to this deck. He can build an aerial army single-handed then flip and command his tokens and your Vampire Nighthawks to bring death from above. Vampire Hexmage is great for killing off enemy planeswalkers, or just holding your blades until the nighthawks hit the field.
Replacing the Footbottom Feasts with 2 more Unearth's might be a good idea, since they can bring just about every creature back to life (and for one mana too). Also swapping the Bloodline Keepers for Vampire Nocturnus could save you the trouble of building a flying army by making your existing vampires into such. One final tweak I would do is replace some (if not all) of the Doom Blades with Go for the Throat, since it helps avoid the protection black seems to have against black decks.
Hopefully, this deck will be as big of a hit at your table as it is at mine.
Happy playing!
-Raging Goblin
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