Bloodhusk Ritualist

Creature — Vampire Shaman

Multikicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card for each time it was kicked.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander 2017
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#17243
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Bloodhusk Ritualist card art
Bloodhusk Ritualist forces targeted discard scaled to how much black mana you sink into its multikicker — hit it for four or five and you can strip an opponent's hand clean. The catch is that all that mana goes into a vanilla 2/2 that dies to a stiff breeze, making it one of the most mana-inefficient discard engines available.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Bloodhusk Ritualist finds its best home under discard-matters generals like Tinybones, Trinket Thief or The Rack-style grind builds where emptying one opponent's hand is a repeatable game plan — but even there, the sorcery-speed telegraphing and fragile body make it a fringe inclusion at best. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient discard like Hymn to Tourach and Thoughtseize, so Bloodhusk Ritualist never sees competitive play in those formats. Modern is legal but irrelevant — the format's discard suite leaves no room for a six-plus-mana creature that does what one-mana spells already do better. Oathbreaker could theoretically exploit it in a black discard shell, but the same criticisms apply.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Bloodhusk Ritualist is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you'd bother ordering it. That price is stable for the same reason it's cheap: demand is low and likely stays that way unless a Commander precon puts discard-matters back on the map.

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