Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, a "whenever you gain life" ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
An ability that triggers "whenever you gain life" triggers just once for each life-gaining event, no matter how much life you gain.
If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability will trigger only once.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.26. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.22 and $0.48 across 46 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SOC — the lineup includes 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 #228 of *Secrets of Strixhaven Commander*, the set that shipped alongside the April 2026 Secrets of Strixhaven Commander release.
Card type: Creature — Vampire Warlock, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Menace.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #4,159 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Caio Monteiro. Rarix catalogs 311 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Caio Monteiro
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You may only pay {B} once for each life gain event.
