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Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord
Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble · {W}{B} · Black/White commander
Whenever another creature or planeswalker you control dies, you gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice another creature or planeswalker: Put a +1/+1 counter on Edgar. He gains menace until end of turn. (He can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
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What Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · deathWhenever another creature or planeswalker you control dies, you gain 1 life.
- Activated ability{2}, Sacrifice another creature or planeswalker: Put a +1/+1 counter on Edgar. He gains menace until end of turn.
What an Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
The Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 21× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 8× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Skeleton Crew4 mana
- Death Tyrant5 mana
- Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
- Crawling Chorus1 mana
- Doomed Traveler1 mana
- Hunted Witness1 mana
- Infestation Sage1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Karn's Bastion0 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Contagion Clasp2 mana
- Drown in Ichor2 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Phyrexian Tower0 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
- Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
- Scavenger's Talent1 mana
- Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
- Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
- Fain, the Broker3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord + Junji, The Midnight Sky + Ashnod's Altar + Karmic Guide
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord + Junji, The Midnight Sky + Ashnod's Altar + Metamorphosis Fanatic
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord + Junji, The Midnight Sky + Viscera Seer + Karmic Guide
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord + Junji, The Midnight Sky + Viscera Seer + Metamorphosis Fanatic
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord + Junji, The Midnight Sky + Carrion Feeder + Karmic Guide
- Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord + Junji, The Midnight Sky + Carrion Feeder + Metamorphosis Fanatic