Blood-Chin Fanatic
Creature — Orc Warrior
, Sacrifice another Warrior creature: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #20350
Blood-Chin Fanatic converts any Warrior into a repeatable drain engine — sacrifice a Warrior, and each opponent loses that creature's power in life while you gain it. The cost is a three-mana 3/2 with no built-in protection, so it dies to anything, but in a Warrior tribal shell it closes games before that matters.
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 |
Blood-Chin Fanatic is a Commander card through and through — Warrior tribal is a real archetype there, and the drain effect scales with 40-life totals and multiple opponents. In Modern and Legacy it's strictly outclassed: three mana for a 3/2 with no immediate board impact doesn't meet the bar, and dedicated aristocrats decks have cleaner sacrifice payoffs. Pioneer is legal but the same logic applies — the format moves too fast for a slow tribal payoff with no protection. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multi-opponent dynamic, which makes the drain marginally more interesting, but only in a Warrior-heavy list.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Blood-Chin Fanatic is deep bulk — a slot in any Warrior tribal Commander deck costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable; there's no crossover demand from competitive formats to push it up, but Warrior tribal interest in Commander keeps steady floor demand from grinding it to near-zero.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.