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Cordial Vampire

Creature — Vampire

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
Price
$1.77
EDHREC rank
#1791
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Cordial Vampire card art
Cordial Vampire puts a +1/+1 counter on every vampire you control whenever any creature dies — not just your creatures, not just vampires — which means a single board wipe or a sacrifice outlet turns a modest board into a threat. The cost is a two-mana 1/1 body that does nothing on its own; pair it with Molten Echoes or a token engine like Clavileño, First of the Blessed and the payoff scales fast enough to justify the fragility.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Clavileño, First of the Blessed

92.0% of decks · synergy 0.85

Clavileño, First of the Blessed creates a death trigger loop — when a token dies drawing you a card and making a Vampire, Cordial Vampire converts each of those deaths into a counter, meaning your surviving vampires grow while the engine refuels your hand.

02
Edgar Markov

Edgar Markov

82.1% of decks · synergy 0.71

Edgar Markov floods the board with vampire tokens on every cast, and Cordial Vampire turns the inevitable combat trades and sacrifice fodder into counters that compound across that wide board.

03
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

73.1% of decks · synergy 0.70

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor wants creatures dying to generate blood tokens, and Cordial Vampire piggybacks on every one of those deaths to pump the vampires Strefan is cheating into play.

04
Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Elenda, the Dusk Rose

67.9% of decks · synergy 0.61

Every death that feeds Elenda, the Dusk Rose's own counter engine also triggers Cordial Vampire, so both cards scale off the same sacrifice or combat events without competing for resources.

05
Olivia Voldaren

Olivia Voldaren

61.8% of decks · synergy 0.59

Olivia Voldaren converts stolen creatures and picked-off creatures into board presence, and Cordial Vampire turns each kill — whether Olivia's or your opponents' — into incremental power across your vampire team.

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 Cordial Vampire lives — multiplayer tables generate creature deaths constantly, so the trigger fires multiple times per round even without any setup. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but unplayed; two mana for a 1/1 that requires a tribal shell to matter doesn't compete in those formats. Modern vampire strategies exist and Cordial Vampire is technically playable there, but the card sees minimal competitive adoption because the payoff requires board width that aggro mirrors punish. Stick to Commander for Cordial Vampire — the format does exactly what it needs to thrive.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.77 cheap tier

At $1.77, Cordial Vampire sits comfortably in the cheap tier — it's an auto-include in any vampire Commander deck and the price reflects broad demand without the spike that staples like Anointed Procession carry. It's not going anywhere as a format staple, so picking one up now is just deck-building, not timing the market.

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