It wasn't until lowly Homelands that the second and third vampire were added to Magic: Baron Sengir and Irini Sengir, both mono-black legends so bad you'll want to force your friends to use them as commanders if they lose a bet. Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, the Dark and Fallen Empires brought us nothing new so, for the first several years of Magic, he remained our only nosferatu. He has a home in 403 decks on EDHREC, and, at least based on myself, plenty of those are probably fueled by nostalgia for one of the most striking cards from the original magic set. Alas, vampire tribal dreams for anyone like myself went unfulfilled for years. Such a respective, just like my own personal desire for a vampire deck began with the OG bloodsucker, the Sengir Vampire. With Commander 2017 everything coalesced: make Edgar my vampire general and convert Drana into big-black-mana. This, of course, led me to dig back through old vampires to see if there was anything I had missed worth considering for either new build, and in doing that research I started to think on just how far vampires in Magic have come as a tribe. Shadow of the VampireĮnter Edgar Markov, a solution seemingly custom built for my problem. The reality is, the deck would probably function much better with a focus on big mana instead of a tribe of glorified blockers.
The non-Drana vampires in the deck tend to just float around to block other stuff until I get enough mana out via doublers and such to blow people apart with a Drana alpha strike. It's fairly fun to play, but it has some problems, namely in that it doesn't really care much about vampires. The idea has nagged in the back of my mind for years. Eventually, deep in the thralls of an EDH deckbuilding bender, I assembled my vampire tribal deck-eventually settling on Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief for my commander.
My first deck was black just to have a slot for my favorite creepy card, but what I really wanted was a vampire tribal deck.
Legions saw the fantastic Anson Maddocks original replaced with another Nosferatu-looking claw-handed chap from Kev Walker, and the Beatdown Box Set got us a sweet Baron Sengir-inspired vamp from Jeff Easley. Also, interestingly enough, subsequent Sengir Vampire printings have maintained the tradition of excellent art. That bald, Max Schreck-looking dude with blood streaming from his face was just captivating. Still, the power level of the card wasn't what hooked me.
Better hope you draw that Shivan Dragon, son. The first pack of Revised I ever opened contained a Sengir Vampire. “He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.”
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