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Welcoming Vampire

Creature — Vampire2 generic manaWhite mana

The clever piece of engineering here is the once-per-turn clause. A go-wide deck floods the board with small bodies, and an unrestricted trigger would turn every swarm into a fistful of cards; that's a broken engine, not a payoff. Capping the draw at one per turn instead of one per creature turns the card into a steady drip rather than a burst, which is exactly the throttle a small-creature deck needs to keep drawing without breaking symmetry with itself. The power-2-or-less gate is the other constraint doing quiet work: it rewards the tokens, mana dorks, and one-drop hatebears you were already playing, while excluding the fatties that would let a midrange deck freeroll off it. What you get is a card-advantage engine tuned specifically for the archetype that historically runs out of gas fastest. White has flirted with this niche before: Mentor of the Meek asked you to pay a mana per draw, gating its card flow behind a resource cost rather than a per-turn ceiling. Welcoming Vampire refines the idea by making the draw free and automatic, then throttling it at the source. The 2/3 evasive body pulls real weight beyond the engine: it defends itself in the air and pressures a life total, so the card is never dead even when your board is bare and there is nothing yet to draw off of.

Welcoming Vampire (dbl)
DBL · #313rare
Pricing
Normal: $5.42
Foil: $28.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
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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