USD
$1.19
EUR
€1.95
Drain Life
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.
- Set
- Unlimited Edition (2ED #106)
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 1993-12-01
- Artist
- Douglas Shuler
- EDHREC rank
- #15,662
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
1
+
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.12
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Not legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Not legal
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Legal
Old School
Legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04
Cost reducers can be used to reduce the X part of the mana cost.
- 2004-10-04
You may gain up to the total toughness of the creature even if it was already damaged.