Art by Miklós Ligeti
Commander deckB
Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
Utilize Gollum's cheap Adventure spell to distribute +1/+1 counters and trigger lifegain engines, then deploy Gollum as an evasive menace threat alongside aggressive counter synergies and life-draining payoffs.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
3B // BLegendary Creature — Halfling Horror // Sorcery — Adventure
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Black Market Connections
2BEnchantment
provides treasure ramp alongside tokens and cards
Card Draw
10
Morbid Opportunist
2BCreature — Human Rogue
steady card draw from creature deaths
Ayara, First of Locthwain
BBBLegendary Creature — Elf Noble
lifedrain engine that sacrifices creatures for cards
Removal
10
Threats/Wincons
24
Bloodthirsty Aerialist
1BBCreature — Vampire Rogue
gains +1/+1 counters whenever life is gained
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
2BLegendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
turns lifegain from Meager Meal into direct damage
Marauding Blight-Priest
2BCreature — Vampire Cleric
drains opponents whenever life is gained
Drana, Liberator of Malakir
1BBLegendary Creature — Vampire Ally
distributes +1/+1 counters across attackers on combat damage
Marionette Apprentice
1BCreature — Human Artificer
provides a creature with fabricate and drains on death triggers
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
2BBLegendary Creature — Vampire Warrior
grows with +1/+1 counters while exiling enemy creatures
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
3BBCreature — Zombie
massive lifegain and life loss finisher
Tenured Inkcaster
4BCreature — Vampire Warlock
drains opponents when creatures with counters attack
Yahenni, Undying Partisan
2BLegendary Creature — Aetherborn Vampire
free sacrifice outlet that grows with +1/+1 counters
Champion of Dusk
3BBCreature — Vampire Knight
refuels hand based on vampire tribal count
Vorpal Sword
BArtifact — Equipment
deathtouch equipment with alternate win condition
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
rewards evasive menace attacks with card advantage
Knight of the Ebon Legion
BCreature — Vampire Knight
grows with counters on life loss and scales into late game
Creeping Bloodsucker
1BCreature — Vampire
guaranteed upkeep life drain to enable lifegain synergies
Retribution of the Ancients
BEnchantment
converts spare +1/+1 counters into repeatable removal
Exquisite Blood
4BEnchantment
life gain powerhouse that combos with drain triggers
Nirkana Revenant
4BBCreature — Vampire Shade
mana doubler and combat threat with shade pump
Necropolis Regent
3BBBCreature — Vampire
doubles +1/+1 counters when creatures deal combat damage
Vampire Nighthawk
1BBCreature — Vampire Shaman
evasive lifelink creature ideal for counter distribution
Gifted Aetherborn
BBCreature — Aetherborn Vampire
defensive early lifelink body to hold counters
Feast on the Fallen
2BEnchantment
places +1/+1 counters on your creatures each upkeep an opponent lost life
Court of Ambition
2BBEnchantment
introduces Monarch and punishes opponents with life loss or discard
Westgate Regent
3BBCreature — Vampire
warded menace beater that doubles its counters on combat damage
Utility
8
The Ozolith
1Legendary Artifact
preserves +1/+1 counters when creatures leave the battlefield
Professor's Warning
BInstant
modal combat trick providing either a counter or indestructible
Kaya's Ghostform
BEnchantment — Aura
resilient single-mana protection against exile and destruction
Whip of Erebos
2BBLegendary Enchantment Artifact
grants teamwide lifelink and reanimates creatures
Bolas's Citadel
3BBBLegendary Artifact
top-deck cast engine fueled by high life totals
