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Taste of Blood
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic 2012M12 · #113
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.08 € · ★ 0.38 € · 0.15 $ · ★ 0.31 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Taste of Blood deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 1 life.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Howard Lyon
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2011-07-15
Flavour text
"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams." —Bram Stoker, *Dracula*
Rulings
If the player is an illegal target when Taste of Blood tries to resolve, Taste of Blood won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t gain life.