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Bloodghast

Creature — Vampire Spirit

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$0.66
EDHREC rank
#1079
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Bloodghast card art
Bloodghast is a recursive threat that costs nothing to rebuy — landfall returns it from the graveyard for free, and at two mana it enters cheaply enough to be sacrificed repeatedly in the same turn cycle. Commanders like Clavileño, First of the Blessed and Zimone and Dina treat it as a perpetual resource rather than a card, and that's the entire case for running it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Clavileño, First of the Blessed

74.1% of decks · synergy 0.68

Clavileño, First of the Blessed turns every nontoken Vampire death into a card draw trigger, and Bloodghast dies and returns so reliably that it functions as a repeatable draw engine — drop a land, get your Vampire back, sacrifice it again next turn.

02
Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Sméagol, Helpful Guide

63.0% of decks · synergy 0.59

Sméagol, Helpful Guide triggers on opponents losing life, and Bloodghast's repeated sacrifice loops keep that life-loss ticking while also filling the graveyard that Sméagol's ramp rewards you for milling into.

03
Zimone and Dina

Zimone and Dina

62.3% of decks · synergy 0.58

Zimone and Dina drain opponents whenever you draw and can sacrifice creatures to draw — Bloodghast closes that loop by returning from the graveyard the moment a land enters, making each land drop a potential drain trigger.

04

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

63.5% of decks · synergy 0.51

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER accumulates Crisis counters by having creatures die on your turn, and Bloodghast is one of the cheapest, most repeatable death triggers available to push that counter engine forward.

05

Grist, Voracious Larva

50.8% of decks · synergy 0.47

Grist, Voracious Larva wants a steady stream of Insects dying and entering, and while Bloodghast isn't an Insect, it feeds the sacrifice outlets that power Grist's mill-and-recur game plan without ever truly leaving the battlefield.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Bloodghast is a staple in any black deck that sacrifices creatures repeatedly — the landfall recursion is free, unconditional, and stacks with every sac outlet on the board. In Legacy, it anchors Dredge lists as one of the most reliable non-Dredge threats that fills the graveyard and comes back without any investment. Modern sees it in similar Dredge and graveyard-value shells, though the format's speed means it needs to come back the same turn it's cast to matter. Pioneer graveyard strategies are narrower but Bloodghast fits anywhere that can trigger landfall reliably. It's legal in Vintage but rarely a priority there given the power density of the format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.66 bulk tier

At $0.66, Bloodghast is bulk pricing for a card that shows up in 10,000-plus Commander decks and sees real Legacy play, which makes it an easy pickup. That price has floor support from consistent demand across multiple formats, so this is a card you buy for the deck, not fret over.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.