Streaking Oilgorger
Creature — Vampire
Flying, haste
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
Max speed — This creature has lifelink.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21435
Streaking Oilgorger enters with a pile of +1/+1 counters scaled to your opponents' life totals, making it a legitimate threat in the mid-to-late game when those totals have diverged. The cost is that it's entirely parasitic on the board state — in a four-player pod where everyone is still at 40, you're paying for a vanilla beater.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Streaking Oilgorger scales best in attrition-heavy pods where life totals drop unevenly — a table where one player has been beaten down to 15 while others sit at 35 means you're putting a legitimately massive creature into play for its mana cost. Outside of Commander, the card struggles: in 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, your opponent starts at 20, and by the time you're casting a five-drop the game is often already decided on board. Pauper is where the math hurts most — life totals rarely swing dramatically enough in fast, efficient commons games to justify a creature whose size is conditional.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Streaking Oilgorger is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking. That price is stable for a novel but narrow threat; there's no trajectory here unless a specific Commander archetype breaks out around it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.