Last time I wrote about a Tiny Leaders deck, it was pulled from a standard Commander deck. This time, I am starting from scratch with a card I have never used before, and building a Tiny Leaders deck around him.
Meet Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (Image via Gatherer).
He's a wonderfully vampiric vampire. He doesn't just have Lifelink, he triggers extra life loss for an opponent whenever I gain life, and can make everyone I run gain Lifelink. This is very thematic for a black deck, so I need to build around him for extra benefits. As usual with any homebrewed deck, this is based on cards I own, and subject to refinement over time as I playtest the deck.
I used a strikethrough on cards removed, and set new cards in italics. This should add more life gain to trigger Vito's first ability.
Artifacts
Chitinous Cloak
Demon's Horn
Explorer's Scope
Hall of Triumph
Haunted Cloak
Hierophant's Chalice
Infiltration Lens
Mindcrank
Skeleton Shard
Staff of the Death Magus
Sylvok Lifestaff
Creatures
Deathgreeter
Foundry Inspector
Guul Draz Mucklord
Guul Draz Vampire
Leaden Myr
Marauding Blight-Priest
Mardu Strike-Leader
Myr Retriever
Priest of Gix
Servant of Tymaret
Tattered Mummy
Vampire Cutthroat
Vampire Envoy
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (Commander)
Wight of Precinct Six
Xathrid Necromancer
Enchantments
Clawing Torment
Eternal Thirst
Untamed Hunger
Instants
Corpse Churn
Crypt Incursion
Essence Extraction
Oblivion's Hunger
Suffer the Past
Undying Malice
Lands
Crumbling Vestige
Darksteel Citadel
Glimmerpost
Polluted Mire
Sunscorched Desert
Swamp (x14)
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Vault of Whispers
Sorceries
What do you think? How can this be improved? Which cards don't fit the theme? How would you build this up to a full EDH/Commander deck?