"The Haunt of HighTower: Feeding on Magic."

"The Haunt of HighTower: Feeding on Magic."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

So there exists a vampire that haunts a certain tower on Ravnica. The horrors that it must have visited on those that lived in or surrounding the said tower must have passed on to one telling after another until it had become the stuff of Legends. 

Well until now. The new block coming into Ravnica allows us to revisit this ancient vampire who still haunts the High tower.

So it is a 6 mana creature with a 3/3 frame , It flies and it has lifelink.

So when it attacks , the defending player discards a card. Making it a higher costing Hypnotic Spectre. Then something interesting happens , whenever a card is put into an opponents grave yard from anywhere , our Vampire gets a +1/+1 counter. So by the time it hits someone on it's attack it now becomes bigger and you get a lot of advantages on your side.

1) You whittled away at an opponents hand.

2) You at least dealt 4 damage.

3) You also get to gain 4 life because of the lifelink.

All in all 3 things that go in your favor. But how do we abuse this guy for more bang for the buck.

Well one thing I can think off right off the bat is with Dimir colors you could actually cast Traumatize on yourself and make this guy , I don't know , huge. at least 30/30 by the time you get him out. 

This guy could also stand in for Consuming Aberration in Phenax decks as it will grow bigger and bigger whenever a card goes to an opponents graveyard.

One particularly nasty thing you could do it equip with a Darksteel Plate or Cast a spell that makes Indestructible and then cast a Board sweep. Creatures landing on the graveyard would feed it and it can just go and head and touch someone and then kill that someone.

Ah the possibilities when you have something that feeds on Magic and Death.