This deck originally spawned from my want to do something with the new Blood Baron, even if it wasn't going to be the central focus of the deck. After some thought and a little help from a user on another forum, I came up with this. A sort of life gain aggro deck with a decent amount of permanent removal to hand the board. The name "Circle Eight" is an old term that refers to the infinite cycle of Life and Death (the symbol for infinity is a sidewise eight). I though it was a fitting name considering the deck gains a ton of life and then kills you.

With the lands, I'm not too concerned about the life loss considering I will have rampant amounts of life gain from playing and swinging with the creatures. Kitchen Finks is all around good life gain, and with Persist he opens up a bit for extra blocks, resto targeting, and a little extra life gain with Trostani. Nighthawk is a simple no-brainer for cheap effective creatures to swing with. Faithmender doubles all the life gained, plus he's got a good defensive body to boot. Resto angel has a solid body, and can do a lot of good when dodging removal or resetting a persisted Finks. Blood Baron is a good finisher that really only gets better when the game hit that peak. Trostani is great for life gain, and the populate can really make Sorin's tokens get out of hand quickly.

Sorin's first two abilities really shine here. The lifelink on the vampires makes them great for attacking or blocking, plus his emblem makes everything with lifelink all the better.

Elixir of immortality is practically a staple in a good 90% of my decks, but here it comes in even more handy with the lifegain theme and resetting my library.

Oblivion Ring is solid removal, kinda figured it would come in handy here. Blind Obedience is a decent aggro staller with the added bonus of potential life gain.

Farseek is the best land search possible for the deck. it can't get Bosk or basic Forests, but it can get everything else. Maelstrom Pulse is obviously some solid removal, though it is sorcery speed. Sign in Blood makes great card draw and with allt he lifegain, the minor life loss shouldn't make too much of a difference

Cards I'm considering, but haven't decided on. These would probably end p as SB fodder.

Thragtusk The ever popular Resto target of the current meta. I originally had him in the deck, but swapped him out for the

Nighthawks. As stated, it would make a good Resto target, plus the token can be populated with Trostani

Disciple of Bolas Good life gain and card draw, it could definitely be used with the Finks to great effect.

Vrasks the Unseen Not gonna lie, I've just really wanted to use her in something for a while now.

Vizkopa Guildmage A great utility card to give the nonlifelinkers lifelink, plus with all the life gain, her seconda ability could come in handy

Night's Whisper Less color intensive version of Sign in Blood. I don't really mind the lack of player targeting since it would be used on me only anyway. This one is more of a swap out for the SiB if in case the color intensity becomes too much.

Putrefy & Mortify I would consider taking out the Maelstrom Pulses and Oblivion Rings for a mix and match of these two if the sorcery speed of the previous two removal cards really became a problem.