Card text
Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
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Mana cost
{4}{B}
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Card text
Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Essence Drain
Essence Drain (24) is a Black Sorcery from Duels of the Planeswalkers (DPA). It costs {4}{B} and has mana value 5. It is printed at Common rarity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander and 2 more formats.
Duels of the Planeswalkers is a preconstructed deck product, released June 2009. Essence Drain has 3 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Card details
- Card number
- 24
- Set
- Duels of the Planeswalkers (DPA)
- Set type
- Deck product
- Released
- 17 June 2009
- Rarity
- Common (C)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Sorcery
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Essence Drain
Essence Drain in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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