Skeletal Vampire

Skeletal Vampire: Creature - Vampire Skeleton, Commander 2017. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}
Mana value: 6
Type: Creature - Vampire Skeleton
Colour identity: Black (B)
Power / toughness: 3/3
Rarity: Rare
Set: Commander 2017 (C17)
Released: 2017-08-25
Collector number: 126
Artist: Wayne Reynolds
Commander rank: 14,419 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords: Flying, Regenerate

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About Skeletal Vampire

Skeletal Vampire is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black creature from Commander 2017 (C17), a Commander product released in August 2017. It is collector number 126 in that set, with art by Wayne Reynolds. It costs {4}{B}{B} (four generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 3/3 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Guildpact (2006) to Commander 2017 (2017). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.41 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Flying

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.

{3}{B}{B}, Sacrifice a Bat: Create two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.

Sacrifice a Bat: Regenerate this creature.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.41 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Skeletal Vampire 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
Penny Dreadful	Legal

Other printings of Skeletal Vampire

Skeletal Vampire has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Printing	Rarity	Year
RNA Guild Kit (GK2) #34	Rare	2019
Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana (GVL) #46	Rare	2014
Modern Masters (MMA) #96	Rare	2013
Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana (DDD) #46	Rare	2009
Guildpact (GPT) #62	Rare	2006

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Skeletal Vampire.

2006-02-01 You may pay the cost of Skeletal Vampire's activated abilities by sacrificing any Bat, not just a Bat token it created.

Similar cards

Other creature cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Skeletal Vampire is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

Vampiric Bloodlust (C17), led by Edgar Markov