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Rabid Bloodsucker

Creature — Vampire4 generic manaBlack mana

The symmetric life loss is the tell. A 3/2 flier that pings each player, you included, for two is not a drain that scales with your board or feeds you anything back; it is a fixed downside disguised as a trigger, and it only makes sense in a deck already ahead on the clock. That self-inflicted cost is the whole reason it reads as filler rather than a threat: the enter-the-battlefield effect rewards whoever is closer to lethal, and the modest body asks you to already be that player before the two points seal the race. This is common-rarity material built to round out an aggressive black curve without warping anything around it: evasion to fly over a clogged ground stall, plus a nudge back toward the finish line for a race you were already winning. As a Vampire with flying and a life-loss trigger, it drops into tribal and life-loss shells without doing anything those decks could not source more efficiently elsewhere. A closer for the game that was already going your way, and little more.

Rabid Bloodsucker (plst)
PLST · #ORI-113common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, each player loses 2 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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