Bloodline Shaman
Creature — Elf Wizard Shaman
: Choose a creature type. Reveal the top card of your library. If that card is a creature card of the chosen type, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #19841
Bloodline Shaman turns any creature-heavy tribal deck into a self-sustaining card engine, repeatedly digging for creatures of a chosen type on a two-mana body that pays for itself over multiple activations. The catch is variance — hitting the wrong type on a whiff means no card and no replacement, so it rewards decks where the vast majority of creatures share a type.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bloodline Shaman is a Commander card through and through — the tribal density required to make the card reliable simply doesn't exist in Legacy or Vintage, where creature counts are low and type consistency is even lower, making it a non-starter in those formats despite legality. In Commander, it earns a slot specifically in tribal decks running 25 or more creatures of a single type, where the hit rate climbs high enough to treat it as repeatable card draw rather than a coin flip. Outside of that context — goodstuff piles, non-tribal builds, even loosely tribal decks with mixed creature types — Bloodline Shaman underperforms badly and should be left in the binder.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Bloodline Shaman isn't currently available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Historically it's floated in the bulk-to-low-value range, which makes it an easy pickup if you're sleeving up a dedicated tribal Commander deck.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.