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Voracious Vampire

Creature — Vampire Knight2 generic manaBlack mana

Tribal aggro lives on density, and an evasive three-drop that doesn't advance the swarm is a slot the deck can't spare. This one earns its place by handing a +1/+1 and menace to a Vampire already on the board when it lands. Because it casts at sorcery speed, the trigger resolves during your main phase rather than in the middle of combat: the play is to deploy it before the attack step, buff a creature you intend to swing with, and send a bigger, harder-to-gang-up-on threat into a board the opponent thought they had measured. Against a lone would-be blocker, menace on a fresh recipient effectively pushes that attacker through unopposed. The trigger's phrasing keeps it from ever reading dead, since a board with no other Vampires still lets it target itself for the stat bump, though that is the weakest line rather than the intended one: with no haste it can't attack the turn it enters, so a self-buff simply expires. The menace grant also does nothing for a creature that already has the keyword; the payoff there collapses to the +1/+1 alone. Nothing here is flashy, and the rate is modest by design. It is textbook tribal-payoff common construction: a creature whose value scales with how committed the shell is to the tribe, connective tissue for an all-in Vampire aggro deck rather than a card that headlines one.

Voracious Vampire (rix)
RIX · #91common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace When this creature enters, target Vampire you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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