Canonized in Blood
Enchantment
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create a 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #14994
Canonized in Blood puts two Blood tokens on the battlefield the moment it resolves — card selection before you even pay the discard cost. Zoyowa Lava-Tongue turns every one of those discards into forced damage, which makes the spell do real work rather than just filtering.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue taxes every discard opponents take, so Canonized in Blood's two built-in discard outlets immediately translate into four damage spread across the table before you've drawn a single new card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Canonized in Blood slots cleanly into discard-matters and Rakdos token strategies — it's cheap enough to cast early and the two Blood tokens provide ongoing card selection without committing to a single discard up front. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it competes against more efficient filtering options and rarely makes the cut outside dedicated Blood or discard synergy shells. Standard is where it sees the most tournament daylight, since the Blood token density matters in aggressive red builds that want to smooth draws without running out of gas. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect doesn't scale to those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Canonized in Blood is pure bulk — you're paying for the effect, not the cardboard. Bulk rares rarely recover unless the effect breaks through in a high-profile format, and this one hasn't shown that trajectory.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.