Blood Tyrant
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{B}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Vampire
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 5
- Set
- Archenemy: Nicol Bolas #81 (rare)
- Price
- $0.35 USD
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each 1 life lost this way.
Whenever a player loses the game, put five +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Blood Tyrant has 3 printings, first in Conflux (2009). EDHREC ranks it #15,245 among Commander cards. It appears most in Obeka, Splitter of Seconds decks (3,770 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Blood Tyrant
- Entropic Uprising - Commander 2016, led by Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder
Commanders that run Blood Tyrant most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds: 3,770 decks
- Garza Zol, Plague Queen: 44 decks
Often played with Blood Tyrant
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Blood Tyrant’s second ability causes each player to lose 1 life, including you. Blood Tyrant will count each player’s life loss, including yours, when determining how many +1/+1 counters it gets.
- : Blood Tyrant’s third ability will trigger no matter how a player loses the game: due to a state-based action (as a result of having a life total of 0 or less, trying to draw a card from an empty library, or having ten poison counters), a spell or ability that says that player loses the game, a concession, or a game loss awarded by a judge.
- : In a multiplayer game using the limited range of influence option (such as a Grand Melee game), if a spell or ability says that you win the game, it instead causes all of your opponents within your range of influence to lose the game. This is another way by which Blood Tyrant’s third ability can trigger.