Vampire Hounds
Creature — Vampire Dog
Discard a creature card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28715
Vampire Hounds is a 2/2 for three mana that grows by discarding cards — a steep ongoing cost that drains your hand to pump a creature that still dies to most removal. Unless you're specifically engineering a discard synergy engine, the card asks too much and delivers too little.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vampire Hounds is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no play in any of them. In Commander, the discard cost runs directly against card advantage, which is already the format's scarcest resource — you'd need a dedicated discard-matters shell like Anje Falkenrath or Chainer, Nightmare Adept to make the math work at all. In Pauper, where it's technically eligible, the format's aggressive commons outclass Vampire Hounds on rate by a wide margin. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana 2/2 regardless of upside.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Vampire Hounds isn't currently available, but given that it's an obscure common with negligible competitive demand, it almost certainly sits at bulk pricing — under $0.25. There's no pressure to pick it up; it will be easy to find if a specific discard build calls for it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.