I have him in a three colored deck and he works perfectly. its Black Green and White so i have a lot of mana generators and a lot of overall mana. In combination with feast of blood he is great... i played a friend and got out Kalitas before he could summon his first creature. After that i won the game because whenever he summoned a creature i killed it and got a copy. Considering that he got out 2 Dominus Of Fealty and i killed both with minimal effort, i would say that he is the best card in my deck. Also, in response to whoever said that Nissa's chosen owns him... don't use his effect on Nissa's chosen. if they only have Nissa's chosen out then you really shouldn't be worried and if they have other creatures out then use his effect on them until they only have Nissa's chosen left.
Posted By:
ChampionofSquee
(12/21/2009 7:40:24 PM)
tad too expensive. Another baron sengir.....awesome but will probably never ever play it. Though baron was more awesome
Posted By:
OutlawD1
(9/26/2009 10:24:42 AM)
This guy and Bloodghast work good together. Attack with Bloodghast, kill it, get a token then play a land. You could also use Kalastria Highborn for some cool life gain/loss effects.
Posted By:
Demonic_Angel13
(1/29/2010 4:22:02 PM)
Holy SHIT!
As a person running a mono-black Vamp deck with all the trappings, this boy is pure GOLD. Keep 3 mana open and ensure that big scary isn't looking at you. Oh and you still have 3 mana open at the end of your turn because you didn't need to instant speed respond? Blow up the biggest creature on the field anyway, just for kicks. And get yourself a vamp token out of it.
5/5
Posted By:
jemas42
(4/17/2011 1:33:55 PM)
Too high on the mana curve to ever work efficiently. Drana does his job of creature controlling one million times better and turns into a monster truck of damage, Nirkana Revenant should be sucking up all of the mana she is spewing out herself, so Kalitas ends up being one of the wort end game picks for vamps. Besides, your Vampire Nocturnis should have ended the game with your BloodghastVampire Nighthalk army long before you could ever generate 7 mana to drop this useless cow. No reason to ever include him over any other end game, he provides a slight board advantage, but paying 10 mana just to steal a creature? That just has bad written all over it. Use your mana on better things.
Posted By:
OpenSeasonNoobs
(5/7/2010 4:14:35 AM)
Will he ever see standard? Doubt it. He's definitely a great EDH general however.
Posted By:
SavageBrain89
(10/3/2009 11:29:08 PM)
I love him cuz turn 4, you could use the ability with Necrotic Ooze. You could even get this ability with Necrotic Ooze turn 2
Turn 1: Swamp + Dark Ritual + Entomb, search for Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
Turn 2: Swamp + Dark Ritual + Necrotic Ooze
Turn 3: Kill a creature and keep it
Turn 4:???
Turn 5: Profit
Posted By:
hedronMatrix
(7/18/2011 9:54:02 PM)
A great card in a casual deck with dark rituals (or even just Culling the Weak or Cabal Ritual).
Also good in reanimator decks.
But without FLYING, the Baron is a bigger threat than him.
Posted By:
getz19
(10/20/2009 11:09:00 AM)
Ah, so flavor wise, he bites enemy creature, and turns it into vampire. Rawwrr I want your blooood! Love the ability, yet feel if I saw this drop on the field I'd remove it really fast. Thankfully since its a destroy ability and not sacrifice, doesn't work on shroud or indestructibility either. All in all, still a great card though, I'm sure someone will figure out some good uses for its ability, like ooze garden and mighty emergence combo, etc. Probably the best use is to give him vigilance so he can still kill things to make into vampires and attack at the same time. Also note that the ability can target itself, so if its about to die, use 3 mana, and you get a 5/5 back and then you can play it again later from graveyard or a second one in your hand.
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(9/26/2009 6:55:13 PM)
comes out too late unless you have a couple of dark rituals
Posted By:
inmypants22
(9/30/2009 7:25:07 PM)