Its got a full four mana symbols and a reasonable body against a control deck, and a Gray Merchant deck will invariably have several ways of bringing it back if it dies at least Gray Merchant itself and the lifelink from Murderous Rider, and potentially more
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Most control decks on the other hand are either going more the direction of the agro decks and getting card advantage alongside their other effects from cards like Consecrated Sphinx or planeswalkers or they are running a card advantage engine such as Life from the Loam
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Grist, the Hunger Tide 6
All are fine picks for a vampire deck, but Ive actually lost to the Drana, Liberator of Malakir and Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief in Commander games, so thats how you decide how to prioritize these