Essence Drain {4}{B}
Sorcery
Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
"The elves are right: Death inevitably leads to life. But the truly powerful don't just experience this cycle. They control it."
—Crovax, ascendant evincar
—Crovax, ascendant evincar
Details
- Artist: Jim Nelson
- Collector Number: 141
- Available foil and nonfoil
- Rarity: common
- Released: 2007-07-13
- Set: Tenth Edition
Legalities
- legal Commander
- legal Duel Commander
- legal Legacy
- legal Mirrodin Block
- legal Modern
- legal Pauper
- legal Penny Dreadful
- legal Vintage
Rulings
- 2012-07-01 If the target permanent or player is an illegal target when Essence Drain tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't gain 3 life.
Links
Printings
- Magic 2013 (common)
- Salvat 2011 (common)
- Duels of the Planeswalkers (common)
- Tenth Edition (common)
- Darksteel (common)
Card is in preconstructed decks:
- Black Deck A (Tenth Edition Sample Deck)
- Evincar's Tyranny (Tenth Edition Theme Deck)
- Tenth Edition Foil Redemption (Tenth Edition MTGO Redemption)
- Tenth Edition Redemption (Tenth Edition MTGO Redemption)
- Grixis Undead (Shards of Alara Intro Pack)
- Unnatural Schemes (Alara Reborn Intro Pack)
Foreign names
- 吸取精华
- 吸取精華
- Essenzentzug
- Drain d'essence
- Risucchia Essenza
- 本質の吸収
- 정수 고갈
- Drenar Essência
- Утечка Эссенции
- Drenaje de esencia