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Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage

Creature — Vampire // Creature — Vampire

Flying
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
{B}: Transform this creature. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$9.10
EDHREC rank
#2495
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Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage card art
Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage is a self-contained token engine that flips into a lord the moment it generates enough Vampires — five mana is the cost of a repeatable threat that snowballs every combat step. Pair it with Intruder Alarm and you have an unbounded loop; run it under Edgar Markov and every Vampire you already wanted to cast accelerates the flip.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Edgar Markov

Edgar Markov

69.4% of decks · synergy 0.60

Edgar Markov's eminence ability means the board is already flooding with Vampires before Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage even untaps, shaving turns off the flip condition and turning the lord side into an immediate win threat.

02
Olivia Voldaren

Olivia Voldaren

55.5% of decks · synergy 0.54

Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage provides the token density that Olivia Voldaren's tap ability wants — more Vampires means more activation targets, and the lord side pumps whatever board she's assembled.

03
Evelyn, the Covetous

Evelyn, the Covetous

50.9% of decks · synergy 0.50

Evelyn, the Covetous cares about casting Vampires from multiple zones, and Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage contributes a steady stream of bodies that trigger her exile effect while building toward the flip.

04
Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Clavileño, First of the Blessed

43.2% of decks · synergy 0.40

Clavileño, First of the Blessed turns non-token Vampires that die into card draw, and Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage on the other side of the flip is a non-token Vampire sitting at the center of the board — dying draws a card and creates a replacement threat.

05
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

32.0% of decks · synergy 0.30

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor cheats Vampires into play off Blood tokens, and Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage is exactly the high-value Vampire you want landing for free while its own token production keeps fueling Strefan's next attack.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage earns its slot — 100-card multiplayer games give it time to untap, generate tokens, and flip, and the lord side's global pump closes games that other finishers can't. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively decorative; five mana for a value creature that needs a Vampire-heavy shell to function can't compete with those formats' interaction density. Modern is technically legal and Vampires exist there, but the same speed problem applies — tribal midrange in Modern wants four-drops that impact the board immediately, not ones that require a setup tax. Oathbreaker gives it a narrower but real home inside a Vampire planeswalker shell where the token generation is continuous.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Vampire tokens at this rate don't come cheap, but Call to the Feast and Lim-Dûl's Vault-style setups aside, Dusk Legion Zealot and similar one-shot bodies can't replicate Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage's repeatable output — the closest budget stand-in is Rakish Heir, which grows your Vampires on combat damage rather than creating new ones, trading the token engine for a pump effect at a fraction of the cost. If you specifically need the lord side's anthem, Stensia Masquerade covers some of that ground under $1, though it lacks the token generation entirely.

Price Context

Current price

$9.10 mid tier

At $9.10, Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it belongs in any Vampire deck that can run it. It's a staple in a popular tribe with sustained demand, so the price reflects real play rather than speculation.

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