Printings
Flames of the Blood Hand
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Betrayers of Kamigawa (BOK)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 101
Oracle Text
Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. The damage can't be prevented. If that player or that planeswalker's controller would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- February 1, 2005
The damage is unpreventable, and the targeted player’s life gain that turn is replaced with nothing.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2005
The replacement effect applies only to the target player, not to a permanent or player the damage might be redirected to.
Source: wotc
Price History
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