Blade of the Bloodchief card art

Blade of the Bloodchief

Artifact — Equipment MV 1

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What it does

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

Equip 1

Combos with Blade of the Bloodchief

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Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2009-10-01

    The +1/+1 counters are put on the equipped creature, not Blade of the Bloodchief. If Blade of the Bloodchief is moved to a different creature, the +1/+1 counters will stay where they are.

  • 2009-10-01

    The creature that gets the counters is the one that's equipped by Blade of the Bloodchief at the time the ability resolves. It doesn't matter what creature Blade of the Bloodchief was attached to (if any) when it triggered.

  • 2009-10-01

    If the equipped creature itself is put into a graveyard, Blade of the Bloodchief's ability will trigger. However, it won't do anything when it resolves unless a spell or ability has caused it to become attached to another creature by that time. (Remember that you may activate an equip ability only as a sorcery.)

  • 2009-10-01

    If the equipped creature and another creature are dealt lethal damage at the same time, the equipped creature will be put into a graveyard before it would receive any counters.

  • 2009-10-01

    Blade of the Bloodchief's ability triggers regardless of who controlled the creature and whose graveyard it was put into.

  • 2009-10-01

    If Blade of the Bloodchief leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the counters are put on the creature it was attached to at the time it left the battlefield. If it wasn't attached to a creature at that time, nothing gets the counters.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Blade of the Bloodchief, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Blade of the Bloodchief price history

The The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander #300 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$7.69▲ $0.21 (2.8%)
Low $6.03 · High $7.69Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Nov 6, 2026$7.69
Nov 5, 2026$7.69
Nov 4, 2026$7.51
Nov 3, 2026$7.27
Nov 2, 2026$7.02
Oct 31, 2026$6.69
Oct 30, 2026$6.51
Oct 29, 2026$6.37
Oct 27, 2026$6.34
Oct 26, 2026$6.06
Oct 25, 2026$6.27
Oct 24, 2026$6.05
Oct 23, 2026$6.03
Oct 21, 2026$6.38
Oct 20, 2026$6.05
Oct 19, 2026$6.36
Oct 18, 2026$6.53
Oct 17, 2026$6.55
Oct 16, 2026$6.47
Oct 15, 2026$6.67
Oct 14, 2026$6.36
Oct 13, 2026$6.46
Oct 12, 2026$6.53
Oct 11, 2026$6.67
Oct 10, 2026$6.70
Oct 9, 2026$6.80
Oct 8, 2026$7.16
Oct 7, 2026$7.45
Oct 6, 2026$7.51
Oct 5, 2026$7.49
Oct 3, 2026$7.38
Oct 2, 2026$7.33
Sep 30, 2026$7.38
Sep 29, 2026$7.58
Sep 28, 2026$7.48

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Blade of the Bloodchief

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Blade of the Bloodchief. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.

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