Dreamdrinker Vampire
Creature — Vampire
Lifelink
: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, it gains menace until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #17002
Dreamdrinker Vampire trades opponents' life totals for cards, making every point of life they lose a resource you gain. The effect is powerful in the right shell, but a three-mana 2/3 body means it has to earn its slot through consistent life-loss triggers rather than raw stats.
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 |
Dreamdrinker Vampire is legal in Commander, and that's where it belongs — life-loss synergies and aristocrats strategies generate the volume of triggers needed to make the card-draw engine run. In Pauper it's legal but competing against more efficient common threats, so the payoff rarely justifies the slot. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to exploit it, but those formats move too fast for a three-mana creature that needs setup to do its best work.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Dreamdrinker Vampire sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or out of a bulk bin without thinking twice. Bulk rares this narrow rarely appreciate unless a future set pushes life-loss into a dominant archetype, so treat it as a cheap role-player, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.