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Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner

Creature — Vampire Wizard // Creature — Vampire Wizard

Blood tokens spent most of their design life as a throwaway rummaging outlet: fixing, chaff conversion, a way to filter without committing a card. This turns the count itself into a resource. The front half sits inside a sacrifice-and-death shell, banking a Blood every time one of your nontoken creatures dies, and once five have piled up the whole thing transforms. That trigger is what reframes the archetype: Blood stops being disposable and becomes a payload you deliberately hoard rather than crack, because the fifth one is a state change, not a card draw. The back face then pays that hoard off, animating a single Blood at the beginning of each of your combats into a flying, hasty 2/2 Bat. Crucially, it does not spend the token to do so: the Blood becomes a creature in addition to its other types, so it remains a Blood you can still sacrifice for a card later. The two halves pull in the same direction, which is the quiet elegance of the design. The front rewards accumulation and the discipline of never cracking one to reach the transform; the back rewards keeping that same pile on the battlefield so it can animate a beater each turn without ever depleting itself. A single stockpile of Blood does double duty: it is both the threshold you chase to flip and the standing reserve of attackers the flipped side draws from, turn after turn, no card ever leaving the pile until you choose to spend one.

Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner (dbl)
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Pricing
Normal: $0.59
Foil: $1.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "1 generic mana, Tap, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you create a Blood token, if you control five or more Blood tokens, transform this creature. // Flying At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target Blood token you control becomes a 2/2 black Bat creature with flying and haste in addition to its other types.
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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