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Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Legendary Creature — Demon Rogue

Deathtouch
Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Kaldheim Promos
Price
$5.65
EDHREC rank
#1879
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Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire card art
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire turns any attack into a repeatable Demonic Tutor — pay two mana, connect with its Boast ability, and put any card from your library on top. The cost is real: you need it to survive long enough to attack, and a 3/3 deathtouch for three mana doesn't force through damage on its own — but in shells that can guarantee attacks, like Be'lakor, the Dark Master, or that want a specific card every turn like Nexus of Fate loops, the payoff is among the most powerful tutor effects in Commander.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Be'lakor, the Dark Master

Be'lakor, the Dark Master

59.7% of decks · synergy 0.57

Be'lakor, the Dark Master triggers off every Demon entering the battlefield, and Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire fits the tribe while also stacking the top of the library so every subsequent Demon tutor or draw hits exactly what the engine needs next.

02
Ardyn, the Usurper

Ardyn, the Usurper

60.5% of decks · synergy 0.56

Ardyn, the Usurper rewards loading up on Demons and punishing opponents through combat, which means Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire is doing double duty — filling the tribal count and fetching whatever threat or piece Ardyn needs to close the game.

03
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

37.7% of decks · synergy 0.36

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign casts the top card of the library for free when it connects, so Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire's Boast ability lets you guarantee that free cast is your best odd-CMC bomb rather than a random hit.

04
Burakos, Party LeaderFolk Hero

Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero

37.7% of decks · synergy 0.36

Burakos, Party Leader // Folk Hero counts Rogues toward the party mechanic, and Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire is a Rogue that converts any successful attack into a tutor — an efficient way to find the missing party pieces or combo cards Folk Hero's draw engine rewards.

05
Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Anowon, the Ruin Thief

36.0% of decks · synergy 0.34

Anowon, the Ruin Thief runs a Rogue tribal package where connecting with creatures mills opponents and draws cards, and Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire adds a tutor on top of that — attack, trigger Anowon's payoffs, and Boast to put the next threat exactly where you want it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire belongs — a repeatable on-attack tutor is a build-around effect in a 100-card singleton format where finding the right piece at the right time wins games. In Legacy and Vintage the competition is brutal: those formats have access to Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor at instant or sorcery speed without needing a creature to survive and connect, so Varragoth simply doesn't make the cut. Modern and Pioneer are similar stories — aggressive formats where a three-mana 3/3 that needs to attack before it does anything is too slow and too fragile against efficient interaction. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card adjacent format where Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire has genuine legs, since the signature spell restriction creates real incentive to run creature-based tutors.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

The closest budget stand-in is Scheming Symmetry, which puts any card on top of your library for one black mana — it gives an opponent the same benefit, but in a combo deck that plans to win immediately after, that drawback is largely academic. If you want a repeatable creature-based option, Insidious Dreams costs no mana beyond discarding cards and stacks the top of the library in any order, though it's a one-shot rather than the every-turn grind that makes Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire so threatening in the right shell.

Price Context

Current price

$5.65 mid tier

At $5.65, Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that it belongs in any deck that can use it. Demand is stable given its presence across Demon tribal, Rogue tribal, and top-of-library combo builds, so this price is unlikely to crater.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.