Magic: The Gathering trading card price guide
Drain Life
Alpha Edition · Common
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Card facts
Magic: The Gathering · trading card
Drain Life is cataloged as a trading card from Alpha Edition for Magic: The Gathering.
The catalog identifies this item with rarity listed as Common, Normal printing.
Available catalog metadata records art credited to Douglas Shuler and a release date of September 5, 1993.
Catalog facts
- Game
- Magic: The Gathering
- Set
- Alpha Edition
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Douglas Shuler
- Release date
- September 5, 1993
- Printing
- Normal
- Card type
- Sorcery
Gameplay facts
- Flavor text
- Drain Life does 1 damage to a single target for each B spent in addition to the casting cost. Caster gains 1 life for each damage inflicted. If you drain life from a creature, you cannot gain more life than the creature’s toughness.