Dashing Bloodsucker
Creature — Vampire Warrior
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, this creature gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #21676
Dashing Bloodsucker drains each opponent for 1 life whenever you cast a spell, stapling a repeatable life-drain engine onto a 3/1 flying body for four mana. The rate is mediocre and the body fragile, but in a dedicated spellslinger or vampire shell the triggers compound fast enough to matter.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dashing Bloodsucker is a role-player in vampire tribal or aristocrats-adjacent lists that want incidental life drain spread across multiple opponents — the multiplayer math makes each trigger worth three times its face value. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Standard, four mana for a 3/1 with a slow drain effect simply doesn't compete; aggressive vampire lists have far more efficient options and controlling shells have no interest in the body. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for the same reason at a steeper opportunity cost. Dashing Bloodsucker lives and dies in Commander, and even there it belongs only in decks that reliably cast three or more spells per turn.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Dashing Bloodsucker is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a common box. There's no price floor to speak of, so buy it purely on whether it earns a slot, not as anything worth speculating on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.