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Bloodline Necromancer

Creature — Vampire Wizard4 generic manaBlack mana

Reanimation stapled onto a body, but with a leash: the target has to already be a Vampire or Wizard, which turns the enters trigger from a free-form graveyard raid into a tribal engine. That restriction is what shapes the card. Anowon and the various Vampire lords want bodies to buff; a shell full of those creatures makes this reusable value rather than a one-off cheat. The lifelink on a 3/2 points toward a grindy tribal build rather than a combo one: it wants to attack, trade, come back, and reanimate again, not power out a single oversized threat as fast as possible. The thing that keeps it from being a generic reanimator is that it can only pull back the exact kind of creature that it is, so a board built around blink and sacrifice effects keeps returning this same tribal package rather than any high-value threat that happens to hit the yard. The five-mana price and the modest body keep it honest in open formats: this is not a threat you fear on rate, it is a payoff you assemble a deck around, and the reward scales with how many of its own creature types you have already committed to.

Bloodline Necromancer (c17)
C17 · #14uncommon
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Normal: $0.40
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Lifelink When this creature enters, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

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