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Bloodhall Priest

Creature — Vampire Cleric2 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

The whole card is built around a single condition that most decks treat as a liability: an empty hand. Hellbent has always been the harder side of black-red's design to pay off, because dumping your hand usually means you've run out of gas. This Vampire turns that emptiness into a recurring two-damage trigger that fires on both entry and every attack, which converts the topdeck war that black-red aggro tends to lose into one it can grind through: each fresh card drawn and spent reloads the threat rather than blunting it. The madness cost is what closes the loop and what makes the empty hand reachable in the first place. Pitch it to a rummaging or looting effect and it arrives off a discard at a discount, and the same engines that empty your hand to enable madness are exactly the ones that switch its ping on. That synergy is the reason it reads as more than a 4/4 with a conditional: the discard outlet that pays for it and the empty hand that arms it are the same deckbuilding decision. As a recurring point of reach that walks back from a deck's bad late game, it offers reach and a clock in one card, with the body large enough that opponents cannot simply race the trigger away.

Bloodhall Priest (inr)
INR · #232rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, if you have no cards in hand, this creature deals 2 damage to any target. Madness 1 generic manaBlack manaRed mana (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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