CCDD 113015—Sanguine Warrior

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11/30/2015 - Dev can tweak the cost and stats here, but the core identity is an aggressive red creature that the opponent can force into a bad attack.

CCDD 070815—Regal Diner

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7/8/2015 - Regal Diner regenerates when it kills a creature. Except in a way that works with the game's timing rules.

CCDD 070814—Keeper of the Night

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7/8/2014 - Flying Blood Bairn.

CCDD 102111—Blood Addict

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10/21/2011 - Today's Tom La Pille article makes Blood Addict the perfect card to share. Before I get into that, I want to touch on the most important point he wrote about: the fact that a trope like vampires has many different aspects and that any given card can only represent one or two of those aspects. Ruthless Cullblade, Night Revelers and Bloodcrazed Neonate show three different takes on vampiric bloodlust, while Sengir Vampire and Stromkirk Patrol show a couple different takes on growing stronger by feeding, Screeching Bat and Sengir Nosferatu show transformation and so on. This is a good thing.

Even if you could fit all of a vampire's abilities onto one card, you'd be out of vampire designs instantly. More important than even keeping the card simple and preserving design space, it's actually really nice from a player's perspective to have a variety of different vampires to play with. It keeps things fresh and interesting even when you create a tribal deck. Thanks to the Magic multiverse, it's even satisfying to the Vorthos that vampires work differently on different planes. They work differently in each book and movie they appear in, so it's great that Zendikar gets one strain while Innistrad gets another.

CCDD 032711—Ravenous Companion

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3/27/2011 - I like the idea of a vampiric ally who will fight for you, but requires regular blood donations from you. Ravenous Companion isn't a huge leap from Vampire Lacerator, just trading early power for eventual power, but it actually reminds me more of the family of Oozes.