Innistrad: Crimson Vow is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic the Gathering's newest set, and coming along with it are two brand new preconstructed Commander decks that you can play straight from the box.168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Strefan, Maurer Progenitor is the black and red Vampire Noble commander of the Vampiric Bloodlines precon, and his deck is all about making Blood tokens and using them to cheat out other Vampires for free.His deck is decent on its own and is more than playable straight out of the box. But with a few choice upgrades, you can take Strefan from being a good Vampire tribal Commander to a scarily powerful Blood token-focused one. Here are the five best upgrades you can get for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Innistrad: Crimson Vow's new Vampiric Bloodlines Commander precon.
5 Phy👍rexian Reclamatio🌳n
One of the areas where the Vampiric Bloodline deck꧙ struggles the most is in its relative lack of creature reanimation. Strefan requires you to keep swinging with your vampires, and so not having any way of getting them back out of the graveyard can be a big downside.
Phyrexian Reclamation is a cheap enchantment that lets you pay two mana and two life to return a creature from your graveyard to your hand. It's by no means the best upgrade for creature reanimation (we'll get to that), but it's a cheap, repeatable effect tha♑t can keep your fo𓆉rces replenished with ease.
4 🌌 Olivia, Crimson Bride
Olivia, Crimson Bride is by far the best reanimation tool Vampires have avai🐭lable to them, whenever she attacks, you return a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and atta𓆉cking. That creature stays out in play for as long as you control a legendary vampire, otherwise, it exiles itself.
It's worth pointing out that the creatures Olivia brings back don't need her to remain in play, just any other Legendary vampire. You've always got one on tap with Strefan in the Command zone, and Anowon the Ruin Sage, Timothar Baron of Bats, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kamber the Plunderer are all also in the precon as a backup. With how many legendary vampires were introduced in Crimson Vow, and the couple already in this deck (Strefan and Anowon, the Ruin Sage), it isn't going to be too diffi𒊎cult to keep Olivia's requirements met.
3 Anje, Maid of Dishonor ꦡ
You can use Anje, Maid of Dishonor to massively speed🐼 up you🐟r Blood token production, letting Strefan cheat out creatures even quicker than normal.
Whenever she or another vampire enters the battlefield under your control, you can make a Blood token once each turn. "Once each turn" is a bit of an annoying limit,🐈 but in just tw🍷o turns you'll have enough to pay for Strefan's ability, making it worth the downside.
Anje also works as an instant-speed sacrifice outlet, letting you sacrifice a creature or Blood token to make each opponent lose two 🔥life and you gainﷺ two. Maybe avoid sacrificing Blood tokens to Anje to make sure you've got them saved for Strefan, but as a way to kill off creatures you don't need any more (or want to reanimate with Olivia), it's not bad.
2 ⛄ Olivia's Attendants
Anje only makes one Blood token per turn, but Olivia's Attendants can make six through combat damage, which is made easier by it having menace.🀅 Alternatively, you can make as many as you can pay for with their two generic and one🌞 red mana sink ability.
Olivia's Attendants is an expensive card, costing a whopping six ꧑mana… unless you have Strefan and two Blood tokens already available, and then they can be dropped onto the battlefield supe🧸r-fast. Just one hit would allow you to get three more Vampires out into play, making it a total bomb of a card in this deck.
1 𓂃 🌳 Florian, Voldaren Scion
Florian is a great inclusion for this deck because he synergises with what you're already doing, and requires no big change to your strategy to be incredibly useful. At the start of your post-combat main phase, you look at the number of cards on top of your library equal to the total life lost by opponents🀅 this turn. You can then exile one and play it for the rest of the turn, and put the rest on the bottom of your library.
You're already causing life loss for Strefaꦕn, and Florian gives you a great way to flick through your deck for the right cards you need. The card is cast from exile, and so try and avoid taking Vampires with it that you would'veꩵ otherwise played from your hand with Strefan, but anything like a removal spell or enchantment is an excellent pick.
