Bloodline Bidding
Sorcery
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a creature type. Return all creature cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3842
Bloodline Bidding puts an entire tribe back onto the battlefield at instant speed — that's a full board recovery stapled to a reasonable mana cost. Grub, Storied Matriarch decks in particular treat it as a reset button that doubles as a win condition, and that combination of resilience and threat density is exactly why the card gets run.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grub, Storied Matriarch
Grub, Storied Matriarch's engine runs on packing the graveyard with creatures of a single type, so Bloodline Bidding turns every wrath or sacrifice payoff into a springboard — more than half of all Grub decks run it for exactly that reason.
Rat King, Verminister
Rat King, Verminister wants a critical mass of Rats in the graveyard to fuel its effects, and Bloodline Bidding converts that pile directly back into a swarming board at instant speed.
High Perfect Morcant
High Perfect Morcant builds around a single creature type going wide, and Bloodline Bidding functions as the deck's best recovery spell — a full tribal reconstitution after a wrath that puts Morcant immediately back to work.
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm cares deeply about Rats dying and reappearing, and Bloodline Bidding is the mass recursion piece that makes the deck resilient rather than fragile against interaction.
Wort, Boggart Auntie
Wort, Boggart Auntie recurs one Goblin per turn cycle, but Bloodline Bidding skips that incremental loop entirely and puts the whole dead tribe back in play at once, making it the top-end recovery spell the deck wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bloodline Bidding is legal across every major Constructed format but its real home is Commander, where tribal synergies run deep and graveyard piles grow large enough to make a mass recursion spell backbreaking. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, the card is theoretically castable but competing against more efficient tribal payoffs and a faster clock that makes five-mana sorceries hard to justify. Legacy and Vintage offer even less room — the power bar is simply too high for a do-nothing-until-you-cast-it enchantment. Oathbreaker splits the difference: if your signature spell sets up a creature-type theme, Bloodline Bidding can close the loop, but the smaller starting life total pressures you toward faster lines.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Bloodline Bidding is a recent release and price data is still settling, so check a live source like Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market figure before buying. Given its 50%+ inclusion rate in the most popular tribal commanders right now, supply will likely be the main price driver in the short term — pick copies up while the set is in print and available at retail.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Grub, Storied Matriarch
- Rat King, Verminister
- High Perfect Morcant
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
- Wort, Boggart Auntie
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.