Bleak Coven Vampires
Creature — Vampire Warrior
Metalcraft — When this creature enters, if you control three or more artifacts, target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #26729
Bleak Coven Vampires drains each opponent for 4 life when it enters — that's 12 total life swung in a four-player pod if you have metalcraft. Five mana for a 4/3 that does nothing without artifacts, and nothing at instant speed, makes it a conditional roleplayer at best.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bleak Coven Vampires is a Pauper-legal common, and that's where it has the most realistic home — artifact-heavy black decks can hit metalcraft consistently and the drain is meaningful in a two-player game. In Commander, the 12-life swing across three opponents is appealing on paper, but five mana for a vanilla 4/3 that requires setup is a hard sell when the format is packed with enter-the-battlefield effects that don't have strings attached. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a five-mana creature with a conditional trigger. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander on the power-level spectrum, so the same artifact-density requirement applies before Bleak Coven Vampires earns a slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Bleak Coven Vampires is deep bulk — you're not paying for it, you're finding it in a trade binder. Bulk commons rarely move unless a format shift makes them staples overnight, and nothing about this card's role suggests that's coming.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.