Sanguine Statuette
Artifact
When this artifact enters, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Blood token, you may have this artifact become a 3/3 Vampire artifact creature with haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #17881
Sanguine Statuette is a payoff piece for life-gain decks that turns each instance of gaining life into a +1/+1 counter, building a growing threat with lifelink over several turns. The cost is that it does nothing the turn it enters and demands a dedicated life-gain shell to matter at all.
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 |
Commander is the only format where Sanguine Statuette earns a slot, specifically in life-gain decks that already have recursive triggers — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim, or Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn shells. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Legacy, it's too slow and too conditional to see play. Pioneer and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana artifact that requires a dedicated sub-theme to produce any board presence.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Sanguine Statuette is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. At that price it holds no financial value to speak of, but it's a zero-risk pickup if the effect fits your deck.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.