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Olivia's Attendants

Creature — Vampire4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

The pinger is the engine that makes the rest of the card cohere. On its own, a 6/6 with menace that spawns Blood on damage is a fine beater with a delayed card-selection payoff: the tokens filter, they don't refuel directly. But the repeatable 2 generic manaRed mana ping for one damage turns that trickle into a faucet you control. Each activation is a Blood token, so the loot fuel costs only mana, and you can point the damage anywhere: a face, a small blocker, a planeswalker. The Blood-on-damage clause counts all damage, not just combat, so the ping and the swing feed one mechanism. There's a subtle sequencing reward in that the six-power body wants to connect (menace helps), and when it does it hands you six Blood at once, which is where the card stops looking like value grind and starts looking like a way to dig through half a deck. Blood is the thriftier cousin of a full draw engine, discard-then-draw rather than pure card advantage, so what benefits most is a shell hungry for graveyard fuel or specific answers over raw count. Everything about the construction points the same direction: a resilient threat that converts every point of damage it deals, from any source, into selection, with a trigger button that keeps the meter running when combat stalls.

Olivia's Attendants (pvow)
PVOW · #172srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace Whenever this creature deals damage, create that many Blood tokens. (They're artifacts with "1 generic mana, Tap, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") 2 generic manaRed mana: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
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

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