Sengir Vampire
Creature — Vampire
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Welcome Deck 2017
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #17814
Sengir Vampire is a nostalgia piece masquerading as a threat — a 4/4 flier for five mana whose +1/+1 counter mechanic requires kills that better cards generate passively. In 2024 Commander, five mana buys you bombs; this is a 1994 rare that never caught up.
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 |
Sengir Vampire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander it competes against a deep pool of five-mana black threats — Massacre Wurm, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Gray Merchant of Asphodel — that close games rather than slowly accumulate counters. In Legacy and Vintage the card doesn't register; those formats operate at a speed where a vanilla 4/4 with a conditional upside is invisible. Pioneer and Modern have similarly moved on, with efficient threats at every point on the curve that outclass Sengir Vampire on rate alone.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Sengir Vampire is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. The price won't move; nostalgia demand is already baked into the collector versions, and competitive demand doesn't exist.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.