Bloodthirsty Aerialist
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Combos with Bloodthirsty Aerialist
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.
- Shalai and Hallar Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Agatha's Soul Cauldron Spike Feeder Infinite
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- All Will Be One Zur, Eternal Schemer Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Agatha's Soul Cauldron Walking Ballista Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2019-07-12
If Bloodthirsty Aerialist is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you gain life, it won't receive a counter from its ability in time to save it.
- 2019-07-12
The ability of Bloodthirsty Aerialist triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Impassioned Orator or 4 life from Dawning Angel. If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Bloodthirsty Aerialist triggers only once.
- 2019-07-12
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
- 2019-07-12
Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Bloodthirsty Aerialist's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Bloodthirsty Aerialist, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oloro, Ageless Ascetic | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Bloodthirsty Aerialist
5 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.

Foundations Jumpstart
- Normal
- $0.27

The List
- Normal
- $0.19

- Normal
- $0.29

- Normal
- $0.39

- Normal
- $0.30
- Foil
- $1.39
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bloodthirsty Aerialist. 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.