Vampire's Kiss
Sorcery
Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Create two Blood tokens. (They're artifacts with "
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, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Price
- $1.20
- EDHREC rank
- #11108
Vampire's Kiss drains each opponent for 1 life and nets you that much life — three players means 3 life lost and 3 gained before anything else happens, all for a single black mana. It's a throwaway card in most decks, but Strefan, Maurer Progenitor and Uyo, Silent Prophet turn that instant into a repeatable engine, and that's the only reason to sleeve it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor needs opponents to lose life to load Blood tokens onto him, and Vampire's Kiss hits every opponent at once for one mana — it's one of the cheapest ways to trigger that engine on turn one and start accelerating Strefan's cost reduction immediately.
Olivia, Crimson Bride
Olivia, Crimson Bride's Vampire-tribal shell rewards incidental life drain, and Vampire's Kiss provides exactly that while costing almost nothing to include, making it an easy slot in decks that want to pad the life-loss count across multiple turns.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vampire's Kiss punches above its weight because every opponent takes the hit simultaneously — one mana to drain three players is genuine value in a 40-life format, and the life gain is real padding against aggro tables. Outside Commander, it's nearly unplayable competitively: Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy all demand more from a one-mana spell than three damage split across a single opponent. Pauper is its only realistic non-Commander home, and even there the effect is too low-impact without a dedicated life-drain payoff. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's math closely enough that the same synergy shells apply.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Uyo, Silent ProphetKodama of the East TreeVampire's Kiss
Infinite Blood tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifeloss; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Current price
$1.20 cheap tier
At $1.20, Vampire's Kiss sits at the high end of what you'd expect for a narrow tribal-synergy instant, but the price is almost entirely driven by Strefan, Maurer Progenitor demand — 32% inclusion in that archetype props it up. It holds its niche price as long as Strefan remains a popular commander, but don't expect it to climb further.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Uyo, Silent Prophet
- Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
- Olivia, Crimson Bride
- Kodama of the East Tree
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.