The Blood of Dawnwalker — Thirty Nights

Commanded by Coen, the Dawnwalker, this Rakdos (black/red) 100-Card Commander Deck is set in a fourteenth-century Carpathian valley owned by vampire nobility. Coen was bitten and not killed; his mother and sister are held in the keep. He has thirty nights to get them out, and nothing gives a night back. The deck is that clock and nothing else.

• The Thirty Nights: a one-mana legendary artifact that enters with thirty night counters. Coen fetches it straight onto the battlefield. Twenty cards remove a night as an additional cost, no card can put one back, and when the last counter comes off the sun rises and every Vampire you control is exiled. The deck is at its most lethal with four nights left and at its most dead at zero.
• Daywalk: fifteen Humans, from Coen down to the bell-ringer and the salt-carter, can remove a night to become a Vampire with a new base size and an ability until end of turn. Every Daywalk makes a peasant into a monster, burns a night and adds one more body to the pile dawn will take.
• Two combos: The Thirtieth Night spends the whole clock on Coen one counter at a time, each removal draining the table through Isbrand. The Cellars Under the Keep (Kallias, Vicho and The Court of Svartrau) is an unbounded Vampire loop that costs zero nights.

Why Rakdos

Black is the nobility and what it owns: the keep, the toll on the pass, the cellars, and the arithmetic that farms a valley of four hundred people. Red is the valley pushing back: charcoal-burners, a stake-wright, the hunt at dusk, the wolves of the high snow. Forty-five cards mention night counters. Coen is printed as a Human, not a Vampire: he takes a +1/+1 counter every time nights come off, so winning means arriving at dawn still human.

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