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Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Legendary Creature — Elder Demon

Flying
Sacrifice another creature: Create a Blood token. If you sacrificed an Angel this way, create a number of Blood tokens equal to its toughness instead.
{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, Sacrifice six Blood tokens: Return each creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Those creatures are Vampires in addition to their other types.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3 Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6833
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Shilgengar, Sire of Famine card art
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine turns your life total into a resource engine, sacrificing Angels and Demons to stack +1/+1 counters and drain opponents — the payoff is enormous, but the seven-mana cost means you need a cheat effect or dedicated ramp to land it before the board answers it. Pair it with Solemnity to strip the counters clause and redirect the engine, or just let Kaalia of the Vast drop it into play free on attack.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Kaalia of the Vast

Kaalia of the Vast

13.2% of decks · synergy 0.12

Kaalia of the Vast cheats Shilgengar, Sire of Famine into play for free on a combat trigger, bypassing the seven-mana asking price entirely and immediately threatening a drain engine backed by Kaalia's existing Angel and Demon package.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it barely registers outside Commander — seven mana is a non-starter in Legacy and Vintage, where the game is typically over before it resolves. In Modern the mana cost is similarly prohibitive without a dedicated sacrifice shell that has better payoffs at that price point. Commander is the natural home: multiplayer life totals give the drain trigger real reach, the Angel and Demon tribes are deep enough to support the sacrifice engine, and cheat-into-play commanders like Kaalia make the cost irrelevant.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Shilgengar, Sire of FamineSolemnityPhyrexian Altar

Shilgengar, Sire of FamineSolemnityPhyrexian Altar

Infinite Blood tokens; Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite rummaging; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-discard triggers

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current price data for Shilgengar, Sire of Famine isn't available here — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow competitive footprint and Commander-specific appeal, it tends to price in line with niche tribal mythics: worth picking up when you're building the deck, not likely to spike without a reprint or breakout combo discovery.

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