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Fourth Edition · #16 · Common
Drain Life
Drain Life
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Card text
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.
Card details
- Set
- Liquid error (snippets/rm-card-details line 73): comparison of String with 0 failed
- Set code
- 4ED
- Number
- 16
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Douglas Shuler
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Mono-Black (Black)
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- April 1, 1995
- EDHREC rank
- #15992 on EDHREC
- Available on
- Paper
- Language
- English
- Frame
- 1993
- Border
- White
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderLegal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHLegal
- PremodernLegal
- Old SchoolLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (2)
Cost reducers can be used to reduce the X part of the mana cost.
You may gain up to the total toughness of the creature even if it was already damaged.
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Drain Life from Fourth Edition, #16. Common. Every copy is checked by hand and the photos show the actual card you'll get.
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