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Marauding Blight-Priest

Creature — Vampire Cleric2 generic manaBlack mana

The engine that turns incidental lifegain into a clock. Lifegain-matters decks have long faced the same problem: the life total climbing is defensive, and the payoffs that convert it into offense tend to be slow or expensive. This flips a passive gain into a symmetric drain, where every trigger simultaneously stabilizes you and taxes each opponent. The design lineage runs straight through Sanguine Bond and Vizkopa Guildmage, cards that pair with lifegain to close games; the difference here is the aggressive body and the cheaper cost, which reframe the effect from a combo half into a curve creature. What holds it in check is that it does nothing to your own life total: it only fires off gains you generate elsewhere, so the card is inert without a source of triggers to feed it. Stacking those triggers is what makes it dangerous, since a modest lifelink attacker or a Soul Warden effect suddenly reads as reach every opponent has to answer. The 3/2 frame matters too: it can pressure a board on its own while the ability quietly builds a second axis of damage, so it is never a pure do-nothing enchantment-on-legs waiting for the rest of the deck to show up.

Marauding Blight-Priest (znr)
ZNR · #112common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.41
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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