I was taking a look at cards that had done well in a limited number of decks, and surprisingly there were a few that fit nicely in a vampire deck. I reached up to the high end on this one and found cost going a little out of control on the averages. In order to solve this, I decided to go with an aggressive aggro vampire approach with a few higher cost cards for very specific purposes. This necessitated the inclusion of Dark Ritual. With 34 cards below the 3-spot, the deck is very cheap, but it is the 3-, 4-, 5-, and 7-spot cards (the only rare and mythic non-land cards in the deck) that can make a huge difference with massive shifts in the balance of power. The resulting 22/12/1/1/1/0/3 curve averages 1.98, tied for the second-lowest cost among all of my vampire decks. I compared the contents to the 13 prior mono-black decks that mention "vampire" in the notes (even if it is a card title reference), and found one deck with 24, one with 21, and three with 20 in common, all of which is pretty low for a creature-type comparison, so I am pleased. The name refers (half-heartedly) to the idea behind barbell strategies with fixed income investinments.