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Vilis, Broker of Blood

Legendary Creature — Demon5 generic manaBlack manaBlack manaBlack mana

Black's classic life-into-cards engines all came with a governor bolted on: Necropotence exiles what you'd draw and eats your turn, Greed rations one card per activation, Dark Confidant deals its damage before the card lands. This demon strips the meter out. Every point of life lost, from any source, in any amount, becomes a card, and the effect scales in a straight line with no ceiling. That is the tension the design has to answer, and it answers it by welding the payoff to a body that manufactures the losses itself: the activated ability spends both black mana and two life to shrink a creature, so every removal use is also a draw trigger. Aim it at your own board, kill something you couldn't otherwise touch, crack a fetch, take a swing in combat, and cards arrive in multiples rather than singletons. The finishing wrinkle is that damage counts as life loss, so a burn spell or an unblocked attacker that would ordinarily just chip your total refills your hand instead. The 8/8 flying frame and the triple-black cost are the counterweight: this is a payoff you have to reach and then protect, not a value creature you deploy on curve. Once it resolves and your life total becomes spendable, the cap on card advantage is essentially whatever life you have left.

Vilis, Broker of Blood (pm20)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Black mana, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
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
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