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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Blood Artist

Creature — Vampire

Whenever this or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (Dying is being put into the graveyard from the battlefield. Tokens enter the graveyard before they cease to exist.)

NV_1980 on Modular Marchesa

1 week ago

Overall, this looks great and balanced. Was just thinking that since there are so many creatures that will be moving into (and out of) your graveyard, wouldn't it make sense to add something like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat for some practically free draining?

legendofa on The Baron's Coterie

3 weeks ago

Silversmote Ghoul is worth a try, but you need to have the Blood Artists and/or Kalastria Highborns active to get the full use out of it. I'll suggest it, but put a question mark next to it.

Outside of Vampires, good recursive creatures are Nether Traitor and Reassembling Skeleton.

Finally, Bone Splinters might be an upgrade to Bitter Triumph. It's sorcery speed, but you save a mana and this deck would probably rather throw away creatures than pay life.

SaberTech on Ideas for an Ayli, Eternal …

1 month ago

I kind of see Ayli as more of a control oriented commander when compared to other potential WB aristocrats style commander options, although the need to gain life and have creatures to sac to her ability does cause a lot of overlap.

The first real hurdle is getting up to 50+ life. Running Ayli means that you opponents have even more reason to default to attacking you so that they can to keep you from using Ayli's removal ability. While being able to pick up life off of Blood Artist and extort type effects is useful, I think that it's worth finding ways to get big swings in life too. Tree of Perdition is one that comes to mind since it has 13 toughness for 4 mana right off the bat and you can increase its toughness even more if it stays on the board. Unhallowed Phalanx offers another high toughness for sac fodder. Serra Ascendant, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Exsanguinate are also ways to gain a bunch of life. Angelic Chorus, Proper Burial, Rhox Faithmender, and Cleric Class have potential as well. Heliod's Intervention could be worth running as a removal option.

There are a bunch of options for token production but I thought that I would mention God-Eternal Oketra combined with Kor Skyfisher, Whitemane Lion, and possibly Stonecloaker as well. Oketra has reasonably high toughness and comes back quick if sacrificed for life. 4/4 tokens are good for sacrificing if you need to. The white bounce creatures can be used for repeatedly triggering your extort effects and other cards like Angelic Chorus, Oketra's Monument, and Cathars' Crusade.

Prava of the Steel Legion is another token producer that can pump all your little tokens into high-toughness sac fodder to gain life.

NV_1980 on The Clown Car

1 month ago

This looks like a lot of fun, but aside from generating tokens (and I presume, attack with them) wouldn't you also want to benefit from them in some other way? Some ideas would include draw (through cards like Dark Prophecy, Mentor of the Meek or Skullclamp), boosting all the creatures on your side of the field with something like Cathars' Crusade or adding some more benefits to profit from their deaths with cards like Attrition, Blood Artist/Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim/Zulaport Cutthroat or Pitiless Plunderer.

Ow, in terms of more token-generation ideas, how about:

Hope the brew works out!

FormOverFunction on What is "Do the Thing …

2 months ago

I’ve heard people refer to modern commanders as being “everything bagels” in their mechanics. Joe old is a perfect example. It’s almost like they’re just combining mainstay pieces (like Blood Artist and Ashnod's Altar) and melding them into a new legendary.

legendofa on Amalia & Raise the Past …

2 months ago

Corpse Knight, Cruel Celebrant, and Zulaport Cutthroat might be better options than Blood Artist, in case someone has shroud or hexproof or protection or whatever.

Or, for the jank option, Thieves' Guild Enforcer and a giant pile of random Rogues. It'll be really good the first time. Throw in Dauthi Voidwalker to steal the biggest creature.

PuritanPuree on Amalia and Her Loyal Lurrus

2 months ago

K4nkato Sure! I actually won a game out of nowhere with a mass-res pile once and didn't even realize it until I brought it all back and was like, "oh, you all take 60" or whatever the number was. Basically, I Ascend from Avernus'd like 11 creatures from the yard, including 5 or 6 different "Soul Sisters" creatures and, most importantly, my copy of Starscape Cleric. I do pretty aggressively explore to the bin because of mass res cards, so that helps, but I feel like you could actually pursue this as a win con more regularly with more dedicated self-mill. It was just happenstance when I did it lol.

There's plenty of other combos that can be put into an Amalia shell. Google "EDHRec Amalia combos" and you'll find gold. Leonin Relic-Warder + Animate Dead is a good one for infinite death & etb triggers. Just slap a Blood Artist-esque effect on the board and you win! It even works in a Lurrus build.

legendofa on Amalia & Raise the Past …

2 months ago

Are you intending Amalia Benavides Aguirre as the commander? If so, what's your milling plan?

Viscera Seer + Putrid Goblin + Blood Artist + Vizier of Remedies fits in her color identity. Sac Goblin to Seer. (The free sac is the important part, the scry is just a bonus.) Artist drains an opponent's life. Goblin persists back to the battlefield, but Vizier blocks the -1/-1 counter. Then you can start the cycle over for infinite drain.

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