Printings
Font of Agonies
Card Information
Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Ravnica Allegiance (RNA)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 74
Oracle Text
Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. {1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 25, 2019
The first ability of Font of Agonies is a triggered ability, not an activated ability. It doesn’t allow you to pay life whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of paying life, such as with Blood Crypt’s ability.
Source: wotc - January 25, 2019
An effect that causes you to pay life uses the word “pay.” If an effect allows you to choose to lose life or to be dealt damage without using the word “pay,” you’re not paying life.
Source: wotc
Price History
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