Vampiric Bloodline Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Flying At the beginning of your end step, create a Blood token for each player who lost life this turn. Whenever Strefan attacks, you may sacrifice two Blood tokens. If you do, you may put a Vampire card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains indestructible until end of turn.

Singles value

$72.56

TCGplayer market, 75 cards, basic lands counted at $0

Sealed price

$148.97

TCGplayer price for the box · singles are 0.5× that

New cards

15 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

Is Vampiric Bloodline worth buying?

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At today's prices the singles come to $72.56, carried by Molten Echoes ($7.73), Nirkana Revenant ($6.67), Shadowgrange Archfiend ($6.06). 15 of the 100 cards are new to this deck.

How Vampiric Bloodline plays

I’m kind of amazed at the huge support Rakdos has been getting in Commander since the 2019 precons. I remember being disappointed when the Commander 2017 decks came out and the vampire precon was black, red, and white. Vampires had always been Rakdos up until that point, with some few vampires having a splash of blue. And that same year we got the Ixalan vampires which also had white. I’m honestly pretty glad that we’re getting proper support for Rakdos vampires again.

While Vampiric Bloodline is first and foremost a vampire tribal, it also incorporates blood tokens into its strategy. There aren’t enough cards in the deck to claim it has a blood token theme, but it definitely sets a base for tokens to be used. There are seven cards in the deck that either create or directly benefit from blood tokens plus a few more that benefit from having generic artifacts they can use.

Unlike the Edgar Markov precon that cared about creating a horde of smaller vampires, this deck is more focused on bigger and stronger creatures. Strefan, Maurer Progenitor’s second ability lets you cheat bigger and more expensive vampires onto the field while also making them indestructible. Mix that with cards like Crossway Troublemakers or Markov Enforcer and you can easily see how this can become really good really fast.