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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.

$0.35

Commander: LegalModern: Not legal

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Tags and classifications

Card attributes are distinct from extracted ability facts and inferred themes. AI themes and predicted tags are suggestions, not rules text.

Mana costs

× 1

Color identity

B

Mana value

Mana value 2

Timing tags

Timing Sorcery

Type tags

Sorcery

Predicted tags are currently unavailable.

Ability classification

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

partial Extraction abilities-3

Incomplete card classification: unmodeled effect: Spend only black mana on X.; unmodeled effect: Drain Life deals X damage to any target; unmodeled effect restriction: 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.

Ability 1

spellunsupported

Spend only black mana on X.

Active zone
stack
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Spend only black mana on X.
Source span
0–27

Functional categories

cadence.one-shotdelivery.spell

Effects

No effect records were extracted.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Spend only black mana on X.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
b89da28212c1da775d0b15bbf6b971083cea1e475f17f98f78cc1523f92bad9f
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Spend only black mana on X.

Ability 2

spellpartial

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.

Active zone
stack
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
No recorded activation cost.
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: Drain Life deals X damage to any target; unmodeled effect restriction: 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.
Source span
28–270

Functional categories

cadence.one-shotdelivery.spelleconomic.producerlife-gain

Effects

life gain · immediate

Unsupported condition: 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.

  • produces life_gain · self life
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: Drain Life deals X damage to any target; unmodeled effect restriction: 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.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
b89da28212c1da775d0b15bbf6b971083cea1e475f17f98f78cc1523f92bad9f
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

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.

Ability 3

castunsupported

Cast Drain Life

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {X}{1}{B}
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery; Unsupported condition: unmodeled mana payment {X}{1}{B}
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self B · amount 1
    action kind: noncreature_spell
  • requires mana · self X
    All of: action kind: noncreature_spell; Unsupported condition: unmodeled mana payment {X}
  • requires mana · self generic · amount 1
    action kind: noncreature_spell
  • produces noncreature_cast · self spell · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.

Incomplete: unmodeled mana payment {X}{1}{B}

Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
b89da28212c1da775d0b15bbf6b971083cea1e475f17f98f78cc1523f92bad9f
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Sorcery

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Text uses cosine resemblance (−1 to 1) between 384-number embeddings when available, or lexical fallback otherwise. Tags use Jaccard overlap of approved tags and AI themes, excluding predicted tags and separately scored color/cost tags. Color compares W/U/B/R/G identity. Mana cost combines mana-value proximity, 1 / (1 + the difference), with mana-symbol overlap. Tags, color, and cost range from 0 to 1.

Model: bge-small-en-v1.5. 0 of 34,605 catalog cards currently have embeddings.

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482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
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Complete
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Scoring revision: relationships-3. Loves, hates, neutral, mixed, conditional, and unknown remain distinct results.

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Printings
SetLanguageCollectorReleasedRarityPrice
30th Anniversary Editionen1022022-11-28common$1.22
30th Anniversary Editionen3992022-11-28common—
Magic Online Promosen359282013-01-11common—
Friday Night Magic 2002en72002-01-01rare—
Beatdown Box Seten242000-10-01common$1.51
Oversized League Prizesen671999-01-01rare—
Fifth Editionko1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionfr1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionen1561997-03-24common$0.35
Fifth Editiones1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionzhs1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionpt1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionde1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionzht1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionja1561997-03-24common—
Fifth Editionit1561997-03-24common—
Miragees1181996-10-08common—
Miragefr1181996-10-08common—
Miragede1181996-10-08common—
Mirageit1181996-10-08common—
Mirageja1181996-10-08common—
Miragept1181996-10-08common—
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Pro Tour Collector Setenll1321996-05-01common$0.59
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Fourth Edition Foreign Black Borderzht1321995-04-01common—
Fourth Editionfr1321995-04-01common—
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Borderes1321995-04-01common$4.50
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Borderja1321995-04-01common—
Fourth Editionde1321995-04-01common—
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Borderpt1321995-04-01common$4.50
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Fourth Editiones1321995-04-01common—
Fourth Editionja1321995-04-01common—
Fourth Editionit1321995-04-01common—
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Revised Editionit1061994-04-11common—
Revised Editionfr1061994-04-11common—
Foreign Black Borderde1061994-04-11common—
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Unlimited Editionen1061993-12-01common$1.19
Limited Edition Betaen1061993-10-04common$26.64
Limited Edition Alphaen1051993-08-05common$62.88