Bloodrite Invoker
Creature — Vampire Shaman
: Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #25633
Bloodrite Invoker trades a three-mana body for an eight-mana activated ability that drains three life — the payoff is real, but the cost means you're spending your whole turn to do it. It belongs in decks that can generate obscene mana and want a mana sink that closes games without needing to attack.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bloodrite Invoker is a niche mana-sink finisher — it shines in decks that produce large amounts of mana repeatedly, like Krenko, Mob Boss token engines or big-mana green stompy builds where eight mana is a single mid-game turn. In Pauper, it sees essentially no play; three mana for a 3/1 with no immediate impact is uncompetitive at common, and the sink rarely comes online. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card is simply too slow for those formats' threat density. Bloodrite Invoker is a Commander-only proposition, and even there it earns a slot only when the deck can fire the ability multiple times per turn cycle.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Bloodrite Invoker is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap addition to any order. Bulk rares rarely recover value unless they see unexpected competitive play, and nothing on the horizon changes that picture here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.