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Champion of Dusk

Creature — Vampire Knight3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Black has always paid for card advantage in life, but the scaling here is the wrinkle: the refill is proportional to the board you already built, which inverts the usual draw-for-life math. Because the 4/4 body counts itself, the floor is always at least one card and one life; the ceiling arrives when it enters a developed Vampire board, drawing a full hand and bleeding you for a chunk of life you can usually spare against decks too slow to punish it. That self-mirroring quality (the card rewards the deck that least needs more gas and offers almost nothing to the deck that does) makes it a payoff rather than an engine. It belongs to the lineage of black mass-draw effects in the vein of Promise of Power and Ambition's Cost, but unlike those it ties the size of the windfall to a tribal count, so the deckbuilding cost is paid up front in committing to the Vampire theme rather than in the mana. The tension the design has to manage is that the life loss is symmetric with the draw, so the player who profits most also exposes themselves most: a tribal deck that overextends into it can draw a hand it cannot survive, paying itself to death. That is the discipline the effect asks for, and it is the whole reason the card stays fair.

Champion of Dusk (lcc)
LCC · #188rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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