Hero card

Vein Ripper

Creature – Vampire Assassin

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Sacrifice, Big Mana

Gives: Lifegain, Drain, Flyers

In 0% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Vein Ripper as the hero

Makes it work

Boneyard Desecrator · Popular Egotist · Kingpin's Enforcers · Rakdos, the Muscle · Acolyte of Aclazotz · Unrooted Ancestor · Bullseye, Death Dealer · Agency Coroner

Benefits from it

South Wind Avatar · Rakish Crew · Marauding Blight-Priest · Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier · At Knifepoint · Starscape Cleric · Gisa, the Hellraiser · Kalastria Highborn

Use instead if you don't have it

Sneering Shadewriter · Basilica Stalker · High Fae Negotiator · Glidedive Duo · Valgavoth, Terror Eater · Purging Stormbrood

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control) · Bitter Triumph (Dimir Aggro)