Blood Operative

Blood Operative

Creature — Vampire Assassin

Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}

How we read this card

Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.

triggered — hits a graveyard

Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.

triggered —

triggered — brings a card back

Causes: exile a card, anything leaves a graveyard, make a player lose life.

Cares about: you surveil.

Works well with

an Assassin deals combat damage — 212 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative deals combat damage:

  1. Layla Hassan — brings a card back
  2. Ezio, Blade of Vengeance — draws you 1 card
  3. Etrata, Deadly Fugitive — triggers
  4. Jacob Frye — exiles a card from your graveyard

an Assassin attacks — 212 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative attacks:

  1. The Revelations of Ezio — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Origin of the Hidden Ones — makes a token

an Assassin creature it grants types to — 219 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Reaper's Scythe — Reaper's Scythe gives Blood Operative an extra creature type

218 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Snarling Gorehound — When Snarling Gorehound surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  2. Grim Javelineer — When Grim Javelineer surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  3. Clandestine Meddler — When Clandestine Meddler surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  4. Sword of Once and Future — When Sword of Once and Future surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  5. Tricorder — When Tricorder surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  6. H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot — When H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  7. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian — When Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  8. Cybernetic Specialist — When Cybernetic Specialist surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  9. Sanguine Spy — When Sanguine Spy surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life
  10. Starving Revenant — When Starving Revenant surveils, Blood Operative makes you lose life

223 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Vampire attacks — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative attacks:

  1. Glass-Cast Heart — makes a token
  2. Sanctum Seeker — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a nontoken Vampire attacks — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

  1. Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle — When Blood Operative attacks, Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle makes a token

a Vampire creature is cast — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

  1. Bloodlord of Vaasgoth — When Blood Operative is cast, Bloodlord of Vaasgoth grants bloodthirst

a Vampire deals combat damage — 484 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative deals combat damage:

  1. Rakish Heir — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Stensia Masquerade — puts a counter on a permanent

a Vampire enters the battlefield — 500 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative enters:

  1. Anje, Maid of Dishonor — makes a token
  2. Forerunner of the Legion — gives +1/+1
  3. Markov Enforcer — deals damage
  4. Evelyn, the Covetous — exiles a card from a library

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative gains life:

  1. Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
  3. South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  4. Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
  5. Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
  7. Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
  8. Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
  9. Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  10. Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers

84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Blood Operative, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Moonstone Harbinger — gives +1/+0
  7. Transcendence — gains you life
  8. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

46 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

When Blood Operative attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Invisible Woman — triggers

126 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature is cast — 18,010 cards in the game can cause this (Blood Operative is one).

  1. God-Eternal Oketra — When Blood Operative is cast, God-Eternal Oketra makes a token

90 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.