Vampire Warlord
Creature — Vampire Warrior
Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #27077
Vampire Warlord gives you a 4/2 with trample and a repeatable sacrifice outlet that draws a card whenever you feed it a creature — meaningful upside stapled to a combat body. Five mana is the honest cost of that package, and in any black deck that wants to sacrifice creatures for value, it earns its slot.
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 |
Vampire Warlord lives almost entirely in Commander, where sacrifice synergies are deep and a repeatable draw-on-sacrifice effect compounds quickly across a long game. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it is legal but never played — five mana for a fragile 4/2 is not a competitive rate in formats where games end before the engine gets rolling. Vintage has the same problem at an even more compressed clock. Stick to Commander, specifically in Vampire tribal or aristocrats shells where the card-draw rider does real work.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Vampire Warlord is pure bulk — pick up a copy whenever you need it without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications rarely climb in price, so no urgency either way.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.