Sorin Markov Lore Deck

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

Flash

Flying, vigilance

When Archangel Avacyn enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

When a non-Angel creature you control dies, transform Archangel Avacyn at the beginning of the next upkeep.

Each opponent discards two cards. If you control a Vampire, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Madness {X}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Avacyn's Judgment deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. If this spell's madness cost was paid, it deals X damage divided as you choose among those permanents and/or players instead.

Flying, vigilance, indestructible

Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Flying, vigilance

{1}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to another target creature this turn by sources of the color of your choice.

{5}{W}{W}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target player or planeswalker this turn by sources of the color of your choice.

Each player sacrifices two creatures.

When Bishop of the Bloodstained enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 1 life for each Vampire you control.

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodflow Connoisseur.

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.

When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.

{T}: Add {B}.

Boros Garrison enters the battlefield tapped.

When Boros Garrison enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

{T}: Add {R}{W}.

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{W}.

{1}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature token with lifelink. Activate only once each turn.

Whenever a creature you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1.

Tap five untapped Vampires you control: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.

{T}, Tap an untapped Vampire you control: Transform Chosen of Markov.

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.

{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Spend only black mana on X.

Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Choose one —

• Destroy all Dragon creatures.

• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Destroy all creatures.

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch and lifelink.

Exile target creature and all other creatures its controller controls with the same name as that creature. That player investigates for each nontoken creature exiled this way.

As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Dreamstone Hedron: Draw three cards.

Eminence — Whenever you cast another Vampire spell, if Edgar Markov is in the command zone or on the battlefield, create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token.

First strike, haste

Whenever Edgar Markov attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

{7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Cast this spell only if you control two or more Vampires.

Destroy target creature. You gain 4 life.

As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Dragon creature spell.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Haven of the Spirit Dragon: Return target Dragon creature card or Ugin planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

{1}, {T}: Exile target creature you control.

{7}, {T}: Exile target creature you don't control.

When Helvault is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Lifelink

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

{2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

[+1]: Target player discards a card.

[−2]: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.

[−8]: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

[+1]: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.

[−2]: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

[−7]: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control."

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Flying, protection from white

When Malakir Bloodwitch enters the battlefield, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.

Double strike

Whenever Markov Blademaster deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Lifelink

Markov Crusader has haste as long as you control another Vampire.

Flying

{2}{B}, Discard a card: Put two +1/+1 counters on Markov Dreadknight.

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Haste

When Markov Warlord enters the battlefield, up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or land.

Draw two cards.

Target player chooses a card in their hand and discards the rest.

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

({T}: Add {R}.)

As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped Vampire you control.

Gain control of target creature. Change the text of that creature by replacing all instances of one creature type with Vampire.

Nomad Outpost enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

When Oath of Liliana enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

At the beginning of each end step, if a planeswalker entered the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Flying

{1}{R}: Olivia Voldaren deals 1 damage to another target creature. That creature becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on Olivia Voldaren.

{3}{B}{B}: Gain control of target Vampire for as long as you control Olivia Voldaren.

Flying

Olivia's Bloodsworn can't block.

{R}: Target Vampire gains haste until end of turn.

Discard a card: Olivia's Dragoon gains flying until end of turn.

Flying

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may discard a card. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, it gains haste until end of turn, and it becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped.

When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

{T}: Add {W}{B}.

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

({T}: Add {W}.)

Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield tapped.

When Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

{T}: Add {B}{R}.

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

[+2]: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

[−3]: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.

[−7]: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 10 life.

[+1]: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to its mana value.

[−X]: Sorin, Grim Nemesis deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

[−9]: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players.

[+1]: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink.

[−2]: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0."

[−6]: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

[+1]: Until your next turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink.

[−2]: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.

[−6]: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature."

Create three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

({T}: Add {B}.)

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains trample and haste until end of turn.

When Ugin's Construct enters the battlefield, sacrifice a permanent that's one or more colors.

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

As Vanquisher's Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

Destroy target permanent.