Voldaren Bloodcaster
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Flying
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you create a Blood token, if you control five or more Blood tokens, transform this creature.
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target Blood token you control becomes a 2/2 black Bat creature with flying and haste in addition to its other types.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-01-24
Blood tokens that become Bats with Bloodbat Summoner’s ability are still Blood artifact tokens and still have “1, T, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.”
- 2025-01-24
Voldaren Bloodcaster’s last ability checks how many Blood tokens you have both as it triggers and as it resolves. If you don’t control at least five Blood tokens at both of those times, it won’t transform.
- 2025-01-24
Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
- 2025-01-24
You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
- 2025-01-24
If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Voldaren Bloodcaster, whatever its commander.
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.