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◇ Catalog #35928

Drain Life

DIGITAL ONLY

prm·#35928·common·foil

Illus. Douglas Shuler

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jan '13

13 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #15,290 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.08

Gameplay

Sorcery

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 2

2004-10-04wotc

Cost reducers can be used to reduce the X part of the mana cost.

2004-10-04wotc

You may gain up to the total toughness of the creature even if it was already damaged.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PRM — the lineup includes Foil 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 #35928 of *Magic Online Promos*, the promotional run that shipped alongside the January 2013 Magic Online release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {X}{1}{B} (2 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #15,290 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Douglas Shuler. Rarix catalogs 707 other cards credited to this artist.