Blood Seeker
Creature — Vampire Shaman
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #2627
Blood Seeker taxes every creature entry across all opponents, turning token floods, creature-heavy strategies, and go-wide boards into a slow bleed — for two mana. In Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls decks especially, that drip of life loss triggers your commander consistently without requiring you to attack.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls needs opponents to lose life outside combat, and Blood Seeker delivers that trigger on every creature ETB across the table — the more creature-heavy your opponents are, the more cards you draw and the faster Valgavoth grows.
Grismold, the Dreadsower
Grismold, the Dreadsower hands every opponent a Plant token on each of your upkeeps, and Blood Seeker converts each of those forced ETBs into a life payment — the gift turns into a tax.
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest floods the board with Insect tokens off its own triggers, and Blood Seeker ensures every creature entering on any side of the table also chips away at life totals.
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin cares about opponents losing life in increments of exactly one, and Blood Seeker is one of the most reliable engines for generating those precise one-damage pulses whenever creature-heavy opponents develop their boards.
The Lord of Pain
The Lord of Pain wants as many damage-to-all sources as possible, and Blood Seeker adds a passive, stackable life-loss vector that fires on opponents' creature plays without requiring any additional investment.
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 |
Blood Seeker is a Commander card through and through — in a four-player game, its trigger fires against three opponents simultaneously, multiplying its value in a way no 1v1 format can replicate. In Pauper it's legal but rarely played, since two-mana do-nothing-until-opponents-act is too slow for the format's aggressive and combo-oriented metagame. Legacy and Vintage give it access to the card pool but no real reason to run it; those formats end too quickly for a passive drain creature to matter. Commander is where the math works: the more creatures opponents play, the harder it is to ignore the cumulative loss, and in a 40-life format that slow bleed is a real clock.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Blood Seeker is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that shows up in over 80% of Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls lists. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point are stable; there's no meaningful downside risk to picking up copies now.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.