Drain Life
Sorcery
Mana cost: {X}{1}{B}
How we read this card
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.
on-cast — deals X damage
on-cast — gains you 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 life
- makes gain life
Causes: anything deals noncombat damage, gain life.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
life is gained — 2,076 cards in the game can cause this (Drain Life is one).
When Drain Life gains life:
- Dina, Soul Steeper — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — draws you that many cards
- South Wind Avatar — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Rodolf Duskbringer — grants indestructible
- Fiendish Panda — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Veinwitch Coven — brings a card back
- Cleric Class — puts a counter on a creature
- Lich's Mastery — draws you that many cards
- Wall of Limbs — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer — triggers
84 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Drain Life is one).
When Drain Life deals noncombat damage:
- Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
- Soul-Scar Mage — puts that many counters on a permanent
- Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
- Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
- Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
- Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
- Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
- Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
- Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
- Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library
36 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 (Drain Life is one).
When Drain Life makes a player lose life:
- Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
- Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
- Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
- Aether Syphon — raises your speed
- Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
- Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
- Slick Imitator — raises your speed
- Nesting Bot — raises your speed
- Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
- Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
46 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Drain Life is one).
When Drain Life is cast:
- Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage — gets +1/+1
- Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
- Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
- Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
- Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
- Artist's Talent — draws and discards
- Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature
424 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is dealt damage — 19,812 cards in the game can cause this (Drain Life is one).
When Drain Life is dealt damage:
- Massacre Girl, Most Wanted — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- War Elemental — puts that many +1/+1 counters on itself
- Darien, King of Kjeldor — makes that many tokens
- Swarmborn Giant — sacrifices itself
- Risona, Asari Commander — triggers
10 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.