Blood Baron of Vizkopa
Creature — Vampire
Lifelink, protection from white and from black
As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, this creature gets +6/+6 and has flying.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Pioneer Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15769
Blood Baron of Vizkopa is a five-mana 4/4 with lifelink and protection from white and black — two of the most common removal colors in Commander — that snowballs into a 10/10 flyer the moment you hit 30 life or drop an opponent to 10. The cost is real: double white and double black makes this a hard cast in three-plus color decks, and it does nothing if you can't gain life or attack into someone low.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blood Baron of Vizkopa earns its slot in Orzhov lifegain decks that can reliably spike to 30 life — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic and Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim shells can flip it in the midgame and present a flying 10/10 that most board wipes can't touch due to its protection. In Modern and Pioneer, it never found a home; five mana is too slow for those formats and the payoff requires setup that faster decks punish brutally. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but would never run it — Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Force of Will don't care about a 10/10. Commander is the only realistic home for Blood Baron of Vizkopa, and even there it's a role-player rather than a format staple.
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Price Context
Current price
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No current price data is available for Blood Baron of Vizkopa, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Historically it has floated in the $2–5 range as a casual Commander card — not a budget pickup, but not a painful one either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.