Blood Artist
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Combos with Blood Artist
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Tombstone Stairwell Infinite
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician The Locust God Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
- Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite storm count
- Veinwitch Coven Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Trudge Garden Ashnod's Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Infinite -1/-1 counters
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Lock
- Warren Soultrader Gravecrawler Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Nest of Scarabs Infinite
- Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2016-06-08
If Blood Artist and one or more other creatures die at the same time, its ability will trigger for each of those creatures.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Blood Artist, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atraxa, Grand Unifier | 1 | 1 | — |
| Aphelia, Viper Whisperer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Clavileño, First of the Blessed | 1 | 0 | — |
| Dina, Essence Brewer | 1 | 0 | — |
| Edgar Markov | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karador, Ghost Chieftain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karlov of the Ghost Council | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 6 decks
- Orzhov 4 decks
- Golgari 3 decks
- Rakdos 3 decks
- Abzan 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Red) 1 deck
Blood Artist price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #209 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $3.83 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $3.88 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $3.84 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $3.91 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $3.97 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $3.87 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $3.92 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $3.77 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Blood Artist
17 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.
The List
- Normal
- —
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $3.83
Showcase
Innistrad Remastered
- Normal
- $6.19
- Foil
- $7.28
Innistrad Remastered
- Normal
- $4.99
- Foil
- $19.98
Innistrad Remastered
- Normal
- $3.87
- Foil
- $4.22
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Normal
- $3.83
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Normal
- $3.41
- Normal
- $4.27
Inverted
- Normal
- $4.05
- Foil
- $4.80
- Normal
- $4.00
- Foil
- $4.00
- Normal
- $3.88
- Normal
- $3.46
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $10.10
The List
- Normal
- $3.81
Commander 2017
- Normal
- $3.20
Eternal Masters
- Normal
- $3.48
- Foil
- $5.88
Avacyn Restored
- Normal
- $2.82
- Foil
- $9.05
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Blood Artist. 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.
