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Blood Bairn

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Blood Bairn

Comments (36)

JSSarfin
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (7 votes)
Strictly better than Vampire Aristocrat due to flavor reasons.
Continue
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (8 votes)
Actually strictly worse than Vampire Aristocrat since he's a Rogue, and there are pro-Rogue cards but no anti-Rogue cards.
Tiggurix
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
The goth cousin of Gilder Bairn.
occamsrazorwit
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (7 votes)
This is the cutest thing ever. Who doesn't want their children to be Blood Bairns?

Also, of course it's strictly worse than Vampire Aristocrat. You're comparing a hungry waif to a noble with weapons.
WishResign
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
If Bloodthrone Vampire saw play in Aristocrats builds, this could too. Although the higher CMC will probably make it less likely, it still has its share of shenanigans.
SyntheticDreamer
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (2 votes)
"Aww, look at the cute widdle vampire. She's just so adorable when she rips my throat out...wait..."
JimmyNoobPlayer
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (12 votes)
Ach, haud yer wisht, wee greetin-faced lassie. Ah dinnae ken what ye be aboot, on sich a dank and dour nicht.
OH MY GOD IT'S BIGGER THAN A BLOODTHRONE VAMPIRE
anotherfan321
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
She also can't sac herself if someone casts an Act of Treason or something on 'er. Which apparently was why they made a new card in the first place, odd flavor, eating yourself. Unless you're a doomgape.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lysdexia kicks in and I'm left with Boiled Brain.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Her eyes are dead creepy.
Purplerooster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Probably one of the more enjoyable ways to die.
chainsmoker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
really looks like Brandon Stark..
Goatllama
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
This is certainly one kinder it might not want to catch.
LordOfTheFlies87
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Let The Right One In.
Murmeldjuret
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Wallpaper, now.
Sarach
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hey, look, it's Babette.
Clashkill84
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
This card is neither strictly better or strictly worse than anything, especially in comparison to Nantuko Husk or Vampire Aristocrat. I like how rather than reprinting all the cards with new names, they're actually changing them functionally so they're essentially new cards. Kudos.
TowerDefender
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Wow incredibly creepy card. Edit: great with Tenacious Dead for repeated sac effect! Wish I'd had more of both at the pre-release!
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
...Eli?
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cannibal Knirps!

(I think only German heavy metal fans will get that one...)
majinara
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Well, and once we get another nantuko husk or phyrexian ghoul or vampire aristocrat. Well, not quite. This one is a tad worse, because it can't sacrifice itself.
Newer players might wonder why allowing to have a creature sacrifice itself is good. But it can trigger all sorts of effects (fecundity, gravepact), prevent opponents from stealing it or casting other nasty spells or enchantments on it. It can give you threshold, fill the graveyard for other reasons, reduce the number of creatures you have if a card checks that, and so on and so on.
Lord_of_phyrexia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Really creepy art
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ahh! Babette! You've been printed into a card!
TexasDice
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I scoop games as soon as she hits the board, because the art is so disturbing and terrifing, It'll hunt me in my nightmares. The creepiest thing I've ever seen.
TrueKitsonga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So Bran had enough of all the walking, it seems.
Mode
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With that impish face you'd think that might as well just be cake on her hands.
If you ignore the two corpses behind her, that is.
Layk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Clashkill84 This is wrong.

@Continue This is correct, but not only because he's a rogue. He can also target himself, which makes him strictly better.
DCman1216
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm new to magic I just created my first deck and i played against my friend. I put this card in play and I'm curious to the sacrifice that comes with casting the card. Do I sacrifice any creature, his or mine, or is it just my creatures?
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@DCman1216: You can never sacrifice anything an opponent controls. Occasionally you'll see an effect that forces someone else to make a sacrifice, but it's still always a permanent's controller that sacrifices it.
Ataraxiom
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Simon and Marcy.
rogonandi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
In a fantasy world, most people should know better than to approach a child who is alone in the wilderness; they're never as harmless or defenseless as they look. Even without her feasting on the blood of her comrades, it still takes a grizzly bear or something equally ferocious to take her down. If she sucks the blood out of a team-mate, she can suddenly easily kill that grizzly bear.
phyrexianghoul
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Edenwolf
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Had some good laughs with this card + tenacious dead + mark of the vampire combo, got this hungry lil vampire to +18/+18 with lifelink, always a good time, the flavor is awesome to boot, 4/5 for me.
raptorman333
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Continue: Umm, excuse me, I can think of at least one anti-Rouge card: Engineered Plague.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Let The Right One In.
tasteful
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@rogonandi but they give quests