Printings
Drain Life
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: X1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Fifth Edition (5ED)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 156
Oracle Text
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.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 4, 2004
Cost reducers can be used to reduce the X part of the mana cost.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
You may gain up to the total toughness of the creature even if it was already damaged.
Source: wotc
Price History
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