Sanguine Sipper
Creature — Vampire Guest
This creature has lifelink as long as you control a stickered permanent.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29894
Sanguine Sipper enters as a 1/1, loots on each life gain trigger, and grows whenever you draw your second card each turn — solid incremental value, but it demands a dedicated life gain shell to do any of that reliably. Outside that shell, it's a vanilla 1/1 for two mana.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sanguine Sipper belongs — life gain synergy decks run deep in the format, and commanders like Oloro, Ageless Ascetic or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim generate the repeated triggers that turn it into a loot engine and a growing threat simultaneously. Pauper is the other format worth mentioning: at common, it slots into life gain strategies alongside cards like Soul Warden, and the card draw ceiling matters more there where card quality is tighter. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — the power floor is too low to compete.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Sanguine Sipper is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up without thinking about it. Bulk rares fluctuate but commons in niche synergy roles rarely climb unless a pushed commander drags them up, so don't expect movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.