Flames of the Blood Hand
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Premium Deck Series: Fire and LightningPD2 · #22
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- ★ 0.22 € · ★ 0.23 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. The damage can't be prevented. If that player or that planeswalker's controller would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Aleksi Briclot
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-11-19
Flavour text
Many ogres extracted blood oaths from the oni they summoned. Others simply extracted blood.
Rulings
The damage is unpreventable, and the targeted player’s life gain that turn is replaced with nothing.
The replacement effect applies only to the target player, not to a permanent or player the damage might be redirected to.
