Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 7.94 € · ★ 13.00 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. : Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Lie Setiawan
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-09-02
Flavour text
"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."
Rulings
Because Vito's first ability doesn't deal damage, you won't gain life when it resolves if Vito has lifelink.
Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Vito's first ability will trigger twice and you may choose a different opponent for each trigger. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
If an ability triggers whenever an opponent loses life and causes you to gain life, such as the ability of Exquisite Blood, this will loop until either you win the game or a player takes an action to break the loop.
If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something, that life is gained as one event and Vito's first ability triggers only once.
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
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