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Vengeful Bloodwitch

Creature — Vampire Warlock1 generic manaBlack mana

The word doing the work here is "another": the trigger fires whenever this creature or any other creature you control dies, so the 1/1 body is incidental to what it is actually for. Aristocrats decks have long wanted a payoff that turns their own sacrificed bodies into a clock, and Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat set the template by draining every opponent on each death. This one steps back from that reach: it hits a single target opponent rather than the whole table, and that narrowing is the trade for a symmetrical one-life swing (a point off them, a point back to you) that keeps the math honest in a duel while stabilizing a deck spending its creatures as ammunition. Because the trigger counts its own death, even a lone Bloodwitch traded in combat or thrown to a sacrifice engine squeezes out one last drain, so it never becomes a dead card once the graveyard machine is running. The value lives in stacking it under a token producer or a recurring sacrifice source, where each death is worth two life of swing and the increments add up faster than an opponent expects. Among the death-payoff creatures that reward treating your own board as fuel, it earns its slot by being cheap enough to land before the machine around it is fully assembled.

Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn)
FDN · #76uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.40
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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