Vraska's Conquistador
Creature — Vampire Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, if you control a Vraska planeswalker, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #27348
Vraska's Conquistador is a two-mana 2/3 that drains for 2 and forces a discard whenever your Planeswalker deals damage — real value, but only if you're building around that trigger. Outside a dedicated Planeswalker shell, it's a vanilla-adjacent beater with conditional upside that rarely fires.
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 |
Vraska's Conquistador is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in exactly one of those: Commander, specifically in Planeswalker-heavy or Golgari superfriends builds. In eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage, a two-mana 2/3 with a conditional trigger isn't competing for slots. Modern and Pioneer have enough efficient threats that Vraska's Conquistador never makes the cut outside fringe brews. In Oathbreaker, pairing it with a Vraska planeswalker as your oathbreaker is the one context where the drain trigger becomes reliably active and genuinely worth building around.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Vraska's Conquistador sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without thinking twice if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a format shift makes them suddenly relevant, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.