Vampiric Feast
Sorcery
Vampiric Feast deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #30249
Vampiric Feast drains each opponent for 2 and puts two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control — immediate board presence and life spread in one shot. The cost is steep at five mana, but the three-way drain makes it a legitimate finisher in the right shell.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vampiric Feast scales with the number of opponents — at a four-player table you drain 6 total and gain 6 life, which is meaningful enough to matter in a lifegain or aristocrats shell. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; five mana sorceries that don't win the game immediately don't exist in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it has a plausible home, again because multiple opponents make the drain add up fast.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Vampiric Feast is pure bulk — easy to pick up in trade binders or as a throw-in. Bulk rares with narrow commander appeal rarely climb in price, so run it because it fits the deck, not as any kind of hold.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.