Blood Hypnotist
Creature — Vampire
This creature can't block.
Whenever you sacrifice one or more Blood tokens, target creature can't block this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #16639
Blood Hypnotist turns every Blood token sacrifice into a guaranteed combat hit — opponents can't block the creature you target until end of turn, which is a repeatable evasion engine stapled to a 3/1 body for three mana. In any deck generating Blood tokens consistently, that's a real threat multiplier, not a corner-case trick.
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 |
Commander is where Blood Hypnotist earns its keep — Blood token synergies live in red-black aristocrats shells, and the ability to punch through blockers on demand scales well in multiplayer where chump-blocking is a primary defense. In Modern or Pioneer, a 3/1 for three that requires Blood tokens already in play is too dependent on setup to see competitive play. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the ceiling is too low for those formats. Oathbreaker could support it in the right Olivia or vampire-adjacent list, but the card never escapes niche status outside Commander.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Blood Hypnotist is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. That price is stable by floor, not by demand, so there's no financial case for picking up multiples.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.