Wispdrinker Vampire
Creature — Vampire Rogue
Flying
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
: Creatures you control with power 2 or less gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #7240
Wispdrinker Vampire puts a 3/3 lifelinker on the board and generates a Spirit token on ETB — two bodies and life gain in one four-mana package. Teysa, Opulent Oligarch builds around exactly that redundancy, and this card slots in without any contortion.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch rewards you for having multiple creatures enter at once, and Wispdrinker Vampire delivers two ETB triggers — the Vampire itself and its Spirit token — in a single cast.
Elenda and Azor
Elenda and Azor wants bodies that generate incremental value over time, and Wispdrinker Vampire's lifelink feeds Elenda's growth while the token gives Azor something to work with on the draw-spell side.
Thalisse, Reverent Medium
Thalisse, Reverent Medium converts token creation into more tokens at end of turn, so Wispdrinker Vampire's on-ETB Spirit immediately seeds that engine without needing any extra setup.
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Elenda, the Dusk Rose scales on creatures dying, and Wispdrinker Vampire contributes two potential sacrifice targets — the Vampire and its token — to that count.
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor produces Treasure whenever opponents cast spells and benefits from a wide board, making Wispdrinker Vampire a clean fit as a token-generating body that also keeps your life total healthy.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wispdrinker Vampire is a Commander card — the token-plus-lifelink combination is too slow and low-impact for the efficient aggro and combo metagames of Modern or Pioneer, where four mana buys far more threat density. In Standard it's playable in a casual sense but unlikely to see competitive registration given the power level of current four-drops. Commander is where the card earns its keep: token synergies, aristocrats payoffs, and life-gain triggers are endemic to the format, and Wispdrinker Vampire checks multiple boxes simultaneously without asking anything of the mana base beyond black and white.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Wispdrinker Vampire is deep bulk — pick it up in any common-bin trade or as a throw-in without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow tribal and token synergies rarely climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so treat it as a free inclusion rather than a spec target.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.