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Olivia, Crimson Bride

Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble

Flying, haste
Whenever Olivia attacks, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains "When you don't control a legendary Vampire, exile this creature."

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Innistrad: Crimson Vow
Price
$8.52
EDHREC rank
#4838
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Olivia, Crimson Bride card art
Olivia, Crimson Bride reanimates any creature from any graveyard the moment she attacks — tying a Zombify to a 3/4 flying haste body for six mana. The catch is that the stolen creature leaves if Olivia leaves the battlefield, so the real payoff is looping her attack trigger with Breath of Fury or running her in the 99 under Strefan, Maurer Progenitor where she doesn't have to survive to matter.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

59.8% of decks · synergy 0.58

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor puts Olivia, Crimson Bride into play for free off a Blood token trigger, meaning you reap the reanimate effect without ever casting the six-mana spell — she shows up in nearly 60% of Strefan lists for exactly that reason.

02
Olivia Voldaren

Olivia Voldaren

42.3% of decks · synergy 0.40

Olivia Voldaren shares a creature type with Olivia, Crimson Bride, so every Vampire entering off the reanimation trigger feeds back into the tribal synergies Olivia Voldaren wants to exploit — it's recursive fuel.

03
Evelyn, the Covetous

Evelyn, the Covetous

26.5% of decks · synergy 0.26

Evelyn, the Covetous exiles cards from opponents' libraries and lets you cast them, and Olivia, Crimson Bride fills the same role from the graveyard side, giving Evelyn decks a second angle for stealing and deploying opponents' best creatures.

04
Edgar Markov

Edgar Markov

21.3% of decks · synergy 0.17

Edgar Markov decks run Olivia, Crimson Bride primarily as a high-end Vampire for tribal count, but the reanimate effect is live value in the mid-to-late game when graveyards are stocked.

05
Dihada, Binder of Wills

Dihada, Binder of Wills

20.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Dihada, Binder of Wills cares about Legendary permanents, and Olivia, Crimson Bride is a Legendary creature with a self-sustaining attack payoff — she slots in as both a synergy piece and a late-game threat that generates immediate board presence.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Olivia, Crimson Bride is genuinely powerful — six mana is acceptable in a 40-life format with ramp, and opponents' stocked graveyards mean the reanimate target is almost always premium. In Pioneer and Modern she's a legal six-drop with no competitive shell that wants her; other reanimator strategies in those formats operate faster and more reliably. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem multiplied — a six-mana creature that requires attacking to generate value doesn't compete in those environments. Stick to Commander and Oathbreaker, where the graveyard ecosystem and slower pace make her trigger genuinely threatening.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

454 decks
Olivia, Crimson BrideBreath of Fury

Olivia, Crimson BrideBreath of Fury

Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Olivia, Crimson Bride is out of reach, Apprentice Necromancer hits a similar reanimate-attached-to-a-creature model at a fraction of the cost, though the reanimated creature is sacrificed at end of turn with no permanence. Shadowborn Demon and Necromantic Selection offer graveyard recursion in black at low price points, but neither matches Olivia's combination of a relevant body, haste, and a trigger that fires every combat — you're trading efficiency for budget, not swapping apples for apples.

Price Context

Current price

$8.52 mid tier

At $8.52, Olivia, Crimson Bride sits in the mid tier — affordable enough that most Commander players can pick her up without a second thought, but not a bulk throw-in. She's a mythic rare with a narrow but dedicated home in Vampire tribal and reanimator lists, which keeps a floor under the price.

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