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Desperate Bloodseeker

Creature — Vampire1 generic manaBlack mana

Self-mill and lifelink on the same two-drop is a quietly deliberate pairing: the enters-the-battlefield trigger lets you point the mill at yourself to seed a graveyard, while the lifelink body buys the tempo you need to reach whatever the graveyard is feeding. That dual purpose gives it a job most cheap self-mill enablers cannot fill, since they hand you nothing on the board (Stitcher's Supplier surrenders its body the moment you want its value), and most lifelink two-drops care nothing about your yard. This card asks for a build where filling the graveyard and pressuring life totals are the same plan: a recursion payoff, a delirium count, a reanimation target you would rather bin than draw. The mill can point at any player, but since two random cards off the top do nothing to disrupt an opponent's actual draws (it is statistically neutral to their hand unless you catch a top-deck tutor mid-resolution), the honest read is that you are almost always milling yourself and treating the two-card cost as an investment rather than a clock. It sits inside the graveyard-matters Vampire lineage as a small, focused enabler rather than a standalone threat, and its ceiling is entirely a function of what you can do with the cards it puts in the bin.

Desperate Bloodseeker (otj)
OTJ · #86common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Lifelink When this creature enters, target player mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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