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Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood

Creature — Vampire Warlock // Sorcery

Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your second main phase, if you gained 2 or more life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven
Price
$1.51
EDHREC rank
#8658
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Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood card art
Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood pairs a vampire-tribal lord with a two-mana draw-two, and the combined value at a low price point makes it an easy slot in black-heavy Commander builds. The Sign in Blood half enables Spellweaver Helix loops and feeds Sorin of House Markov's life-gain synergies without asking much in return.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Sorin of House Markov

36.9% of decks · synergy 0.29

Sorin of House Markov's life-drain gameplan lines up directly with Sign in Blood, draining opponents while Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood pumps the vampire board and refuels your hand.

03
Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Betor, Ancestor's Voice

29.6% of decks · synergy 0.25

Betor, Ancestor's Voice runs a high density of cheap black spells to fuel its graveyard recursion, and Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood fills the curve with two relevant halves in one card slot.

04
Edgar Markov

Edgar Markov

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.20

Edgar Markov floods the board with vampire tokens, and the Scheming Silvertongue front face adds a lord effect that makes those tokens immediately more threatening while Sign in Blood replaces itself.

05
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

27.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse turns every opponent's draw into drain and punishes them for it, and casting Sign in Blood on an opponent — the classic Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood finishing move — becomes a lethal swing when Sheoldred is in play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood earns its slot in any black-heavy deck that wants a vampire lord, cheap card draw, or both — the flexibility of an MDFC means you're never locked into the wrong half. In Modern and Pioneer, Sign in Blood competes with Thoughtseize and other efficient black two-drops, so it rarely makes cuts at competitive tables, but the Silvertongue front face has no traction there. Legacy and Vintage have access to Necropotence and Yawgmoth's Will, which pushes Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood firmly to the fringe in those formats. Standard legality means it sees some play in limited black midrange builds, where the body plus draw on one card is genuinely strong at common-to-uncommon rates.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.51 cheap tier

At $1.51, Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood sits in the comfortable bulk-rare range where you add it without deliberating. The MDFC treatment gives it more practical value than a standalone Sign in Blood reprint, so the price is fair for what it does in Commander.

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