Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Creature — Vampire Demon

Flying

If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (37)

SaberTech on Esper On Hit

3 days ago

There are a few creatures that cause an opponent to lose half their life if the creature deals combat damage to them, like Unstoppable Slasher. Equipment like Quietus Spike and Scytheclaw can also give that effect. I'm not sure if this crosses your "no combo" rule, but teaming those cards up with Bloodletter of Aclazotz or Wound Reflection leads to one-hit knockouts. I personally don't see that as being much different than somehow being able to pump an infect creature up to 10+ power.

There are a bunch of creatures that let you draw a card when they deal combat damage to a player, so that's worth considering. There are also a bunch of specter creatures that force an opponent to discard if they deal combat damage. Dazzling Sphinx might be worth considering too.

Creatures with the Myriad ability could be something to look at as well since Kamiz can make the original one unblockable. Maybe just including Blade of Selves and Ironwill Forger to give creatures Myriad would be enough.

legendofa on Draw Until Death Do Us Part

1 month ago

If you want another kill combo for this deck, Fraying Omnipotence or Scourge of the Skyclaves makes a good (if mana-heavy) double hit with the Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Wound Reflection. Each player loses half their life, then each opponent loses the other half.

OberstHati on Transylvania (Edgar Markov)

1 month ago

Nice 1, I took this as a base for Arena Brawl vampires, even lacking a solid Commander it’s rather effective,… I had to Chose Olivia, Opulent Outlaw as Commander for Color Identity and Flavor, Rally the Ranks as another cheap anthem, Sorin of House Markov  ^Flip for flavor and ping,…Cards that really have an impact even without the eminence spawned coven areBloodletter of Aclazotz, especially when on the Board with another Pearl, Roaming Throne. Banner of Kinship is absurd in your Build, Ruinous Ultimatum might come in Handy too, in a few Matches. Moogles' Valor might be fun too… Since you don’t run Vito or marauding blightpriest Bloodthirsty Conqueror would not raise the Deck to Bracket 4,… Just a few Thoughts, You made me want to build Vampires with this Deck instead of Orzhov Aristocrats, definite +1!

Last_Laugh on Ikra Friqi Shidiqi + Kondo Mondo Buttlink

2 months ago

Fun commanders, I've had them built for a few years now and I have a few suggestions for you. I'll try to keep things budget friendly (besides 1 card) and I'll break it down by category.

Card Draw: Breena, the Demagogue, Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh, Starscream, Power Hungry  ^Flip, Wojek Investigator, Vraska Joins Up, and possibly Sergeant John Benton (I run all these personally).

Defensive: Crackdown may work better than Meekstone here because it's easier for you to get around if you're seeing +1+1 counter effects or 3+ power flyers like Shalai, Voice of Plenty.

The 1 expensive card: Bloodletter of Aclazotz is really really good here.

Anyways, feel free to check out my deck for other ideas. Upvotes on any of my decks are appreciated. Badonkadonk Buttlink Brigade - Ikra / Sidar

Destroyerbirb on K'rrik Son of Yawgmoth 2.0

4 months ago

For cuts I would recommend:

Professor Onyx - While Liliana's side job is beneficial for society (educators are very important, especially those who help us raise people from the dead), the deck doesn't have a strong spell slinger theme so her static doesnt work, the minus three is not as optimal as it makes itself out to be, and other effects are... not worth the six mana and time required.

Charcoal Diamond - You've got a ridiculous amount of ramp in this deck already, not sure this piece is needed. Plus, with the way K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth works, you want to ramp in colourless more than in black with your artifacts and similar since K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth always pays for black anyways, so Mind Stone just makes Charcoal Diamond look that much more of a downgrade.

Defense Grid - Not really seeing the point. Plus, this is meant to be a casual deck, all this will do is make everyone more upset and make interaction harder.

Saw in Half - It's a fun card not really worth adding.

Meathook Massacre 2 - I have a feeling it's a bit redundant to have both, especially since they both do a bit different things and you've got many tutors. Cutting the second part instead of its original installation would make more sense because this copy does cost a lot for its effect, whereas The Meathook Massacre became so played because it being pretty low costing for everything it does.

Paradise Plume - A lot of mana for its effect, and you have too many ramp cards.

Shared Trauma - Not too sure on this card's inclusion and what it would do.

Chain of Smog - I personally don't think discard cards are very strong in EDH, might be a good cut. I can see this being played against CEDH players and having a big effect, but EDH? Not as convinced.

Grim Tutor - You've got a lot of tutors, you can cut this one.

Final Parting - Same as above.

Diabolic Tutor - You can guess what I've got to say about this one.

Platinum Angel - I think take this one out. You can't pay life below zero so I'm not sure why else this would be in the deck.

Phage the Untouchable - As you said, you'd put it in your maybeboard and have it come out a game or two so you can just say you've killed someone with Phage, but I'd probably just keep it in the maybeboard.

Orcish Bowmasters - What are you playing, CEDH?

Opposition AgentGC - This is really more a meta suggestion than anything, but you don't verse people with a lot of tutors, you'd be lucky if people run more than one tutor. I'd cut this just from a meta perspective, or at least have it as a maybeboard card.

Doomsday Excruciator - Eh, nah.

Dimir House Guard - It's a sac outlet and a tutor in one, so I see what you're going with, which is why I'm only partially suggesting it as a cut, but also it's not the best at either job.

Chainer, Dementia Master - Not sure I'm feeling Chainer in this deck specifically.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz - Would be a lovely card for our cube, but I think there are already better finishers in this deck.

Asmodeus the Archfiend - Another maybe cut. It's a fun and spicy card, but also you're losing a lot of life for an effect which you do better with other cards in here. You really don't want to have too many cards that do similar things, especially since you've got many tutors and draw cards.

Cabal Stronghold - You've got three basic lands. There is no world in which you could activate this card and get a payoff from it.

Emergence Zone - Playing stuff at instant speed doesn't really help your deck.

Rogue's Passage - Zero use in this deck.

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I also have addition suggestions:

Torment of Hailfire - Not sure why this isn't here.

Swamp - Add one Swamp for every land cut.

NV_1980 on [2025] Party Hardy with Rakdos! Primer [1.1]

4 months ago

Hi, I love this build; it's obviously something you've been working on for quite a while, considering what you're telling about the deck's origin. Rakdos has long been my favorite Rakdos (pun intended) commander, and some of the cards I've been using (lately) that I didn't find in your build would be examples like:

1. Bloodletter of Aclazotz: I know that it's rather expensive, but I can tell from experiencing his impact on the battlefield that he's worth it. He's basically a bad-ass combatant with a stronger version of Wound Reflection incorporated in him.
2. Descent into Avernus: great value; especially with Rakdos on the battlefield.
3. Neheb, the Eternal: if ANY creature would want to party with the lord of pain, I think it would be this guy. He basically feeds off of the pain that Rakdos requires to show his true potential, and that energy can be put to good use. :)
4. Vial Smasher the Fierce: his ability is just about the embodiment of chaos, so sounds very well suited to party with Rakdos.

Keep up the good work and enjoy this build! Ow, and here's mine in case you're interesed: The Portal of Pain.

NV_1980 on Be'lakor, Blade of the Seraph

5 months ago

You're welcome Vessiliana! Completely understand your reasoning concerning Contract. With regards to Devourer, I kinda understand it too, though I should point out that it's quite likely that he hits the battlefield much earlier than Be'lakor, because of the required mana cost of the latter.

Regarding the more expensive stuff, I was going to bring up cards like Archfiend of Despair/Bloodletter of Aclazotz (both have insane damage potential), Roaming Throne (which is massively beneficial in almost any tribal deck), Valgavoth, Terror Eater (super strong with an excellent theft ability) and Urza's Incubator (another way to make demon-summoning a lot cheaper).

Necramus on

5 months ago

Do you think Bloodletter of Aclazotz is worth?? Double your infect or Gary triggers?