Blood Bairn
Creature — Vampire
Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2015
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #17936
Blood Bairn trades your token fodder for a temporarily enormous vampire — a sac outlet that can close games when paired with enough bodies. Three mana for a 2/2 is the price, and it's a real one in competitive Commander.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blood Bairn earns a slot in dedicated sacrifice decks — Aristocrats builds running Judith, the Scourge Diva or Viscera Seer want redundant free or near-free sac outlets, and Blood Bairn fills that slot at common rarity. Pauper is where it sees the most structured use: sacrifice synergies are a real archetype at that power level, and a repeatable outlet on a body is genuinely hard to replace there. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, it's strictly outclassed — Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder do the same job for less mana with upside. Blood Bairn is a card for constrained formats and budget builds, not open lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Blood Bairn is bulk — you're buying it out of a common box, not tracking it on a market. That price is stable simply because the card is plentiful and demand is narrow, so there's no reason to expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.