Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
Legendary Creature — Vampire
Flying
Whenever Mirko Vosk deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.49
- EDHREC rank
- #9840
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker turns every unblocked attack into a mill-until-four-lands trigger — at five mana for a 2/4 flier, the body is fragile but the payoff is immediate and compounding. He wins games on his own if opponents can't answer evasion, which makes the removal magnet problem a feature: a four-mana kill spell on your 5-drop is fine when that 5-drop mills thirty cards unanswered.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind turns every Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker trigger into a free Lazav copy — each batch of milled cards is a menu of creatures Lazav can wear, so a single unblocked swing routinely hands Lazav two or three upgrade options at once.
Phenax, God of Deception
Phenax, God of Deception mills at tap-down speed, and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker adds a combat-damage vector that mills non-linearly — hitting four lands in one swing can gut an opponent's library faster than a dozen Phenax activations.
Lord Xander, the Collector
Lord Xander, the Collector builds a misery-stack of discard, sacrifice, and mill effects, and Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker fits that gameplan by threatening to mill out any player who leaves combat open, compounding the resource denial Lord Xander already applies.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Constructed formats ignore him entirely — five mana for a 2/4 that requires combat damage to function is nowhere near the rate those formats demand. Commander is the only home where he's genuinely good: multiplayer games run long enough for his trigger to matter, opponents can't always spare removal on a single threat, and mill-until-four-lands scales brutally against 100-card libraries. In Oathbreaker he's playable in dedicated mill shells but faces the same tempo problem as in Constructed — faster games punish a 5-drop that doesn't immediately close.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.49 bulk tier
At $0.49, Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker is bulk, and that price is correct — supply is wide and demand is narrow enough that it won't climb without a reprint driving renewed attention. Pick him up for his mill synergies without any budget concern; the only thing to spend more on is protecting him once he hits the table.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.