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Bloodline Necromancer

Creature — Vampire Wizard

Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Treasure Chest
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#3877
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Bloodline Necromancer card art
Bloodline Necromancer enters the battlefield and immediately returns a Vampire or Wizard from your graveyard to the battlefield — that's a two-for-one stapled to a body. The cost is a five-mana 3/3 with no evasion, which is a real ask, but in Inalla, Archmage Ritualist decks the eminence trigger copies it for one mana and you get the ETB twice, making the rate absurd.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

74.7% of decks · synergy 0.72

Bloodline Necromancer is one of Inalla, Archmage Ritualist's premier combo pieces — the eminence copy triggers the ETB a second time, letting you chain recursive loops that can generate infinite mana or drain the table with the right graveyard setup.

02
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

66.0% of decks · synergy 0.64

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor plays Bloodline Necromancer as a recursion engine that doubles as a Vampire body, keeping your best threats alive while feeding the blood token and reanimation gameplan Strefan wants.

04
Evelyn, the Covetous

Evelyn, the Covetous

37.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Evelyn, the Covetous exiles cards from opponents' libraries and wants a critical mass of Vampires entering the battlefield to chain those exiled cards; Bloodline Necromancer provides a reusable ETB that keeps the engine turning.

05
Olivia, Crimson Bride

Olivia, Crimson Bride

31.2% of decks · synergy 0.29

Olivia, Crimson Bride's reanimation requires a legendary Vampire in play to keep creatures on the battlefield — Bloodline Necromancer fills both roles as a recursive piece and a Vampire that supports Olivia's graveyard strategy.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Bloodline Necromancer is a Commander card through and through — the five-mana cost is acceptable at a 100-card singleton table where games go long and tribal synergies compound, and the Vampire/Wizard dual typing plugs into the two most popular tribe commanders in black. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, no competitive deck wants a vanilla 3/3 for five with a conditional ETB when faster, cheaper options exist. Oathbreaker follows similar logic to Commander at smaller scale, and any Vampire or Wizard oathbreaker with a graveyard subtheme will find Bloodline Necromancer pulling its weight.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,889 decks
Bloodline NecromancerMolten EchoesAshnod's Altar

Bloodline NecromancerMolten EchoesAshnod's Altar

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Return some creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield

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1,044 decks
Bloodline NecromancerMolten EchoesViscera Seer

Bloodline NecromancerMolten EchoesViscera Seer

Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite scry 1; Return some creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Bloodline Necromancer isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its near-75% inclusion rate in Inalla, Archmage Ritualist decks and strong showings across multiple Vampire commanders, any price under a couple of dollars is an easy pickup for the relevant decks.

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