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◇ Catalog #63

Blood Operative

grn·#63·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Livia Prima

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wishlisted

Oct '18

7 yr ago

Value

$0.19+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.20 · low $0.18

NM$0.19

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.18–$0.20modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.20low $0.02range 900.0%n 63

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TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #17,521 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.56

Nonfoil$0.19

Gameplay

Creature — Vampire Assassin

Lifelink When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard. Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.

3/1

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2024-01-12wotc

An ability that triggers "whenever you surveil" triggers after you're done surveilling, even if you have fewer cards in your library than the number of cards you're instructed to surveil. It even triggers if you have no cards in your library.

2018-10-05wotc

If you surveil and put Blood Operative into your graveyard as you do so, its ability triggers once you've finished surveilling.

2018-10-05wotc

No player may take actions between the time you choose to pay 3 life and the time you return Blood Operative to your hand.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.19. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $0.20 across 63 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from GRN — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #63 of *Guilds of Ravnica*, the set that shipped alongside the October 2018 Guilds of Ravnica release.

Card type: Creature — Vampire Assassin, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Lifelink.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #17,521 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Livia Prima. Rarix catalogs 239 other cards credited to this artist.