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Markov Enforcer

Creature — Vampire Soldier4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

A repeatable fight engine wearing tribal clothing, and the trigger condition is what turns a fair six-drop into an attrition machine. The fight fires off every Vampire you control that enters, not just this one, so in a board built around cheap Vampires each new body doubles as a removal spell aimed at an opponent's line. Because the fight is directed at a creature an opponent controls, the engine is pointed outward by design: it clears their board rather than threatening your own. The 6/6 body is the piece that keeps the loop alive. Fight is a two-way exchange, and enough toughness means this thing usually survives the creatures it picks off, so the same source can fire again the next time a Vampire hits the battlefield. The Blood-token clause is the payoff that separates it from a pure beater: any creature it damages and kills the same turn nets a Blood token, so a repeatable fight source feeds a repeatable card-filtering artifact, and value stacks on every trade. Note what those Blood tokens actually do, though: they discard and draw, filtering your hand rather than gaining or draining life, so this is not the lifegain thread Vampires often run on. It leans the tribe toward grind: convert kills into Blood, sink Blood into fresh cards, keep the enter-the-battlefield triggers coming with a curve packed full of cheap Vampires.

Markov Enforcer (voc)
VOC · #26rare
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Normal: $0.33
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control enters, this creature fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "1 generic mana, Tap, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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