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Veinwitch Coven

Creature — Vampire Warlock

Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2021
Price
$3.31
EDHREC rank
#4215
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Veinwitch Coven card art
Veinwitch Coven puts a repeatable life-gain trigger on the board that scales with how aggressively you're draining opponents — pair it with Feast of Sanity and every upkeep becomes a damage source on top of the life you're already gaining. Dina, Essence Brewer turns each of those life-gain triggers into additional drain, which means Veinwitch Coven isn't just a value piece in that shell, it's a win condition.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Dina, Essence Brewer

Dina, Essence Brewer

55.3% of decks · synergy 0.52

Dina, Essence Brewer converts every Veinwitch Coven trigger into a drain ping, creating a self-reinforcing loop where gaining life causes more life loss causes more life gain.

02
Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

Olivia, Opulent Outlaw

41.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Olivia, Opulent Outlaw generates treasures off creature attacks, and Veinwitch Coven's upkeep trigger gives that treasure-fueled life-gain strategy a consistent payoff that doesn't require combat to threaten the table.

05
Beledros Witherbloom

Beledros Witherbloom

23.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

Beledros Witherbloom already incentivizes paying life, and Veinwitch Coven closes the loop by turning each life-gain event back into a board-state advantage at low resource cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Veinwitch Coven is a Commander card through and through — its value compounds over a long game with multiple opponents, and a three-mana 3/3 that gains life once per upkeep needs the multiplayer clock to matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but entirely unplayable; those formats don't give a vanilla-adjacent creature with a slow trigger the time of day. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where Veinwitch Coven can find a home, specifically in life-drain planeswalker shells that mirror Commander's pace.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.31 cheap tier

At $3.31, Veinwitch Coven sits in the impulse-buy tier — cheap enough to slot into any Golgari life-gain build without a second thought. It sees enough play across Dina and Vito shells to hold that price, and there's no reason to expect it to drop.

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