Blood Artist
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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
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.)

hyalopterouslemur on Beta Brackets Update Today

3 days ago

DemonDragonJ: Yeah, my loathing of five-color goodstuff mostly comes from how this is supposed to be the color-restricted format: I have a Ghave, Guru of Spores deck, but if I want to make a Rith, the Awakener or Marath, Will of the Wild *f-etch* deck, I have to lose the black cards (and probably the entire Aristocrats theme). So, no more Grave Pact or Dictate of Erebos. No more Pitiless Plunderer. No more Diabolic Intent. No more Blood Artist or Bastion of Remembrance. I do gain red, though, so say hello to Purphoros, God of the Forge. Rhys the Redeemed or Nemata, Primeval Warden would be even more restricted, as token decks go.

My removal also suffers, since red removal is surprisingly bad in this format. (Seriously, I'd argue white has the best removal, followed closely by black. Green's a distant third, and red and blue are tied for fourth: Red has more removal, blue has better removal.)

And it happens between Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, Betor, Ancestor's Voice, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, Beledros Witherbloom, and Licia, Sanguine Tribunefoil too. All are lifegain, but only Oloro can use Absorb and Drogskol Reaver. Only Licia can use Lightning Helix and Searing Meditation. Only Betor can use Beledros Witherbloom. Ayli and Witherbloom are even more restricted, especially since Witherbloom can't use the color that's best at lifegain.

But that's the whole point. When I choose a Commander, I make a lot of choices regarding deck construction. I can't say "Cathars' Crusade would be good in my Animar, Soul of Elements deck." because, well, it wouldn't; it would be illegal. That forces me to pick, I don't know, Ivy Lane Denizen or Forgotten Ancient instead. Corpsejack Menace? You mean Branching Evolution? (Aside from the name, why is Corpsejack Menace anyway? I actually wouldn't mind if it were just because that's Simic's thing.) And so on down the line.

Five-color goodstuff opts to ignore all of this. And right now, there are more five-color decks in EDH than in Legacy.

Eh, I can always just hate them out with Primal Order.

That's my rant about how too much five-color goodstuff is bad for the game.

Anyway, I play Aura Shards and Seedborn Muse in a lot of decks too. Aura Shards is really oppressive in a token build, or even a reanimator build. Seedborn Muse is interesting because she's either overpowered (anything , token builds, Yeva, Nature's Herald) or just a fancy Village Bell-Ringer without the Splinter Twin combo. I have to go through my decks now and see which ones have four or more game changers.

Foxigami on Infestation of Goblins and Rats

1 week ago

Heyo, i love this deck as i have been brewing around this style of deck for a while. I am specifically trying to make a vampire tribal version of this deck as i found some fun combos and vampires that work well with this strategy. Here are my suggestions

first: if you are gonna kill the tokens off, Blood Artist and Slaughter Specialist are some cards you should think about, they work well and offer other ways for this deck to win.

second: Illness in the Ranks is a good way to remove all the tokens, Toxic Deluge would be helpful as well as it would be another way for you to do a mass board wipe other than.

third: some fun cards you can add i would recommend would be Hunted Bonebrute, and Hunted Horror. they are not the best cards as bonebrute can be easily killed by a Lightning Bolt and hunted horror might give the opponent too much value, but they should be considered as well.

some other fun cards to consider are Massacre Girl, Known Killer and Massacre Wurmfoil. massacre girl just gives you automatic value with draw cards, while massacre wurm can be another wincon. they might be a bit too slow though.

eitherway, great deck. i wish you luck with it!

Venum on Math is for Blockers

1 week ago

your average CMC is 2.83, i don't know if the three talisman and 2 signet are really worth it.

  1. I would swap the 5 of them for something similar to Mirkwood Bats that you already have.
  2. Agate Instigator for extra damage whenever you create a token
  3. Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon + Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim + Blood Artist
  4. Warleader's Call is a nice addition also since you already have All-Out Assault
  5. Isshin, Two Heavens as One to trigger additionnal Mobilize/Myriad.
  6. Feel free to look at my version Mardu, meat token dispenser

lil_cheez on Best color for this type …

2 months ago

Hiya friend, I assume you're talking about Commander Format.

Blue and white are the colors for buying time: Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, AEtherize, Holy Day, Silence, Counterspell.

Green has "Fogs", namesake Fog, Spore Frog, etc.

If you want to slowly "burn" your opponents, red and black are your friends: Impact Tremorsfoil, Blood Artist.

I'd recommend to do a little research and be creative, but, top of my head, maybe you'd like a Kykar, Wind's Fury deck, play the "buying time" enchantments, hold countermagic and other interaction, use the tokens to burn players, etc!

TheoryCrafter on "Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls" EDH …

3 months ago

Welcome Back to Magic. I broke my description down to the three deck types yer seeking.

Aristocrats: Take advantage of death triggers to hurt your opponent. Examples of cards are Blood Artist, Dreadhorde Butcher and Zulaport Cutthroat. Graveyard recursion cards like Disentomb, Gravedigger, Mortuary Mire and Valgavoth's Faithful should be considered.

Burn: Spells, instants and sorceries, and abilities of permanents that deal noncombat damage. Examples include, but are not limited to, Blightning, Bonfire of the Damned and Lightning Bolt. Cards you should add to any Rakdos burn deck include, but are not limited to, Pestilent Spirit, Soul-Scar Mage and Toralf, God of Fury  Flip.

Punisher: A Sophie's Choice in every spell. Examples include, but are not limited to, Book Burning, Dash Hopes, Killing Wave, Painful Quandary and Vexing Devil. I would also consider any creature with the Afflict ability, especially Wildfire Eternal to be punisher cards.

As for cards that will feed into your commander's static ability, I would recommend Burning Anger, Psychosis Crawler, Scrawling Crawler and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse.

Thank you for reading me out. I hope this helps give you a baseline of what you're looking for. Happy Hunting!

Flarhoon13 on Blim's Blumpkins

3 months ago

Finally!!! Lost one, won one yesterday evening! Let's talk about the win. I attacked turn 4 with Blim, Comedic Genius, gifting Francois, on Gyrus, Waker of Corpsesfoil, an Oni Possession. Blim, Comedic Genius never attacked again, even though I cast him for 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 mana. Later in the game, I cast a Sorcerous Spyglass and found an infinite combo in Aubrey's large grip... Exquisite Blood and Enduring Tenacity. Seeing that, I decided not to name Francois' Chainsaw nor his Lightning Greaves. Instead, I named Blighted Fen, which never seemed to matter.

Francois used Gyrus, Waker of Corpsesfoil to kill Aubrey, sending exactly enough to get 5 damage through, past his only creature, Athreos, God of Passage. I had a Tormod's Crypt out but never used it.

On my penultimate turn, at 6 life, I cast a Nefarious Lich and a Chain Reaction, taking out Tendershoot Dryad and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride. I had about 9 cards in the yard, including AEther Flash, which had killed a Blood Artist and did a lot of work this game. A Demonic Collusion had found me a Blasphemous Act, which eventually took out Aubrey's Valgavoth, Terror Eater and several other blockers to allow Francois' kill shot on him. Auren was able to kill Francois. Auren passed turn to me while he was tapped out at 1 life with 5 tapped food, Night of the Sweets' Revenge in his graveyard, and his commander, Ygra, Eater of All making all creatures into delicious morsels. I made the ultimate top deck: Greed's Gambit. This allowed me to draw 9 cards with Nefarious Lich out. Among those nine was a Dark Petition which found me an Earthquake for the win. Finally!! Earthquake for 3 finally was enough to win the game.

legendofa on Glimmers that Represent Negative Emotions

4 months ago

I would change the name of Enduring Authority to Enduring Repression, leaning into the -negative aspects of authority.

Blood Artist is already a key card in a lot of combo decks, and this adds free recursion, deathtouch, and +1/+2 for just one black mana. This is probably printable at rare/mythic rare, but a safer option would be to make it trigger on either your creatures dying or your opponents' creatures, not any creature.

Enduring Hostility also feels strong, but it's a little harder to gauge. Auras like Power of Fire and Lightning Prowess give the ability to one creature for 2-3 mana, and Lightning Volley gives the ability to all creature temporarily, but they're not exactly power cards. Maybe add an additional cost, like discarding or , or activate only during your turn?

DemonDragonJ on Glimmers that Represent Negative Emotions

4 months ago

I believe that the "enduring" creatures from Duskmourn are an interesting concept, but I noticed that they all represent positive emotions, or emotions that people usually regard as positive, so I decided to make several "enduring" creatures that represent negative emotions (or emotions that people usually regard as negative), as seen, here:

Enduring Authority Show

This creature is modeled after Ghostly Prison or Windborn Muse, and I chose for it to be an elephant, since elephants are large and strong animals, as one would expect for a creature with this effect. I almost chose for this card to make spells more expensive to cast, as does Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, but I decided that that ability would be too powerful and or/oppressive, so I chose the ghostly prison ability, instead. I also originally gave this creature base power and toughness 3/4, but I decided that that would make it too powerful, so I made it a 3/3, instead.

Enduring Cruelty Show

I initially was contemplating giving this creature the same ability as Wound Reflection and Archfiend of Despair, but that would have made its mana cost far too high, so I chose the same ability as Blood Artist, instead.

Enduring Duplicity Show

I had the greatest difficulty out of this cycle in deciding what ability this creature should have, so I ultimately chose a very simple and straightforward ability; I originally wrote the ability as "whenever an opponent draws a card, you may ; if you do, that player discards a card," but I felt that that was too powerful, so I changed it, and I also made the ability affect the creature's controller, as well, for balance.

Enduring Ferocity Show

This creature was the easiest of the cycle to design, since it has the most straightforward ability, and it is also is the only one that does not have a keyword, since I could not find one that was suitable, for it; I could have made this creature a spider and then given it reach, but I felt that a wolf was better suited for a creature that has the word "ferocity" in its name.

Enduring Hostility Show

I almost had this creature grant haste to all other creatures that its controller controls, but I decided that that would have made it too powerful, so only the creature itself has haste (so that it may use its own ability, immediately), which means that its controller shall need to find a way to grant haste to their other creatures.

What does everyone else say, about these creatures? How well did I do, with them? I certainly am eager to receive your feedback, about them!

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