Blade of the Bloodchief
Blade of the Bloodchief: Artifact - Equipment, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Artifact - Equipment
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Collector number
- 300
- Artist
- Jung Park
- Commander rank
- 2,439 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Equip
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About Blade of the Bloodchief
Blade of the Bloodchief is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC), a Commander product released in November 2023. It is collector number 300 in that set, with art by Jung Park. It costs {1} (one generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Zendikar (2009) to The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $6.21 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip {1}
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $6.21 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Blade of the Bloodchief by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Blade of the Bloodchief
Blade of the Bloodchief has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #C17-204 | Rare | 2026 |
| Commander 2017 (C17) #204 | Rare | 2017 |
| Zendikar (ZEN) #196 | Rare | 2009 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Blade of the Bloodchief, newest first.
- The +1/+1 counters are put on the equipped creature, not Blade of the Bloodchief. If Blade of the Bloodchief is moved to a different creature, the +1/+1 counters will stay where they are.
- The creature that gets the counters is the one that's equipped by Blade of the Bloodchief at the time the ability resolves. It doesn't matter what creature Blade of the Bloodchief was attached to (if any) when it triggered.
- If the equipped creature itself is put into a graveyard, Blade of the Bloodchief's ability will trigger. However, it won't do anything when it resolves unless a spell or ability has caused it to become attached to another creature by that time. (Remember that you may activate an equip ability only as a sorcery.)
- If the equipped creature and another creature are dealt lethal damage at the same time, the equipped creature will be put into a graveyard before it would receive any counters.
- Blade of the Bloodchief's ability triggers regardless of who controlled the creature and whose graveyard it was put into.
- If Blade of the Bloodchief leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the counters are put on the creature it was attached to at the time it left the battlefield. If it wasn't attached to a creature at that time, nothing gets the counters.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Blade of the Bloodchief is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.