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Drana, the Last Bloodchief
Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
Flying Whenever Drana attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.
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“Reanimating Vampire army commander—attack to rebuild your board from the graveyard.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Reanimator, Sacrifice, Aristocrats, Graveyard
Strategy
Drana, the Last Bloodchief is a recursive army builder that turns your graveyard into an endless supply of threats. Every time she swings, you're pulling a creature back onto the battlefield with a bonus counter, creating a growing board presence that's hard to block and rewards you for filling your graveyard. This makes her an excellent commander for a self-mill or sacrifice-heavy strategy where creatures naturally end up in your graveyard.
The deck leans into value by stacking synergies: cards that mill you or discard creatures, sacrifice outlets to trigger death synergies, and creatures with relevant ETB effects or static abilities that benefit from being reanimated repeatedly. Over time, you're assembling an army of increasingly large Vampires while your graveyard shrinks and your board swells. The gameplan is straightforward—attack, rebuild, attack harder. This creates a snowball effect that's satisfying to pilot and scales naturally with the size of your graveyard.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Replace expensive reanimation like Entomb with cheaper self-mill like Stitcher's Supplier and Satyr Wayfinder; use budget sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer or Altar's Reap.
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