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Dominating Vampire

Creature — Vampire1 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Threaten effects have always paid for their power with impermanence: you borrow a body for one attack, sacrifice or bounce it before the turn ends, and hand it back if you cannot. What this Vampire does is fold that entire play pattern into a tribal payoff. The size of the theft scales with your board, so a developed Vampire deck steals bigger and bigger targets while a mono-red brew running one or two barely functions. That is the balancing lever: the effect is worthless as a splash and lethal as a keystone, and the deck has to earn its ceiling by committing to the type in the first place. Untap and haste are the operative words in the timing: even a defensive blocker becomes an immediate attacker, which turns the steal into tempo and reach at once, not merely a removal-adjacent tap-down. And because the theft is stapled to a 3/3 that stays on the board after the borrowed creature goes home, the card does not cannibalize its own tempo the way a one-shot spell does; it stays behind and adds to the very Vampire count that fuels the next payoff you deploy. Plenty of red creatures convert an enters-the-battlefield trigger into an aggressive swing, but the mana-value clamp keyed to your own tribe is the wrinkle that makes this a build-around rather than a generically good beater.

Dominating Vampire (dbl)
DBL · #421rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.38
Foil: $1.89
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, gain control of target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of Vampires you control until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
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
Legal
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