Repentant Vampire
Creature — Vampire
Flying
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature is white and has "
: Destroy target black creature."
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.53
- EDHREC rank
- #28533
Repentant Vampire is a five-mana 3/3 flier that transforms into a repeatable converter of nonvampire creatures you kill into 1/1 Vampire tokens with flying — solid board presence if you can trigger it consistently. The setup cost is real, but in a dedicated Vampire or sacrifice shell it pulls genuine value on top of an evasive body.
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 |
Repentant Vampire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but only Commander gives it a real home. In Commander, dedicated Vampire tribal decks provide the consistent kill conditions needed to flip it and keep generating tokens — without that support structure, a five-mana 3/3 with a conditional transform is easy to ignore. Legacy and Vintage are both too fast and too efficient to care about a creature that asks you to do work before it does work; it simply won't see competitive play there. Oathbreaker could theoretically support it in a Vampire-adjacent shell, but the 60-card singleton format with a 20-life starting total makes the five-mana entry point harder to justify. Stick to Commander tribal builds.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.53 bulk tier
At $0.53, Repentant Vampire is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a casual inclusion without any real financial risk. It's unlikely to appreciate unless a high-profile Vampire commander release drives tribal demand, so buy it if you want it now rather than treating it as a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.