Memory Vampire
Creature — Vampire Detective
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, any number of target players each mill that many cards. Then you may collect evidence 9. When you do, you may cast target nonland card from defending player's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #20926
Memory Vampire enters with a +1/+1 counter for each card an opponent has milled this turn, turning any mill-heavy table into immediate board presence. The payoff scales directly with how aggressively opponents are filling graveyards, making it a free-rider in the right shell.
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 |
Commander is where Memory Vampire actually has a home — multiplayer tables frequently run self-mill, wheel effects, and dedicated mill strategies, all of which feed its counter trigger without any extra work on your part. In a dedicated Traumatize-into-Fraying Sanity shell or alongside a commander like Phenax, God of Deception, it can enter as a genuinely large threat. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but neither format is running a 2/2 that needs setup to be relevant. Memory Vampire is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Memory Vampire is bulk — you're not paying a premium for the effect. Bulk mythics and rares in niche archetypes rarely climb without a competitive breakout, so treat this as a cheap role-player to slot in and forget about, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.