Taste of Blood
Sorcery
Taste of Blood deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #25485
Taste of Blood drains an opponent for 1 and gains you 1 life for a single black mana — clean, instant-speed, and permanent. It's a fine damage-to-life-total transaction in dedicated life-gain or aristocrats shells, but too marginal for most decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Taste of Blood earns its slot only in decks that care about repeated life-gain triggers — think Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond effects where each point of drain doubles as a payoff activator. In Pauper it's a common-legal piece of life-gain fodder, mostly filler unless the deck specifically rewards incremental drain. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are too fast for a one-mana spell that doesn't affect the board, so Taste of Blood doesn't see play there. Outside of Commander and Pauper, ignore it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Taste of Blood is deep bulk — cheap enough to throw into any order. It won't appreciate; stock is wide and demand narrow, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.