Cards/Innistrad: Double Feature/Syphon Essence
Syphon Essence
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Oracle Text
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
The third step in creating a skaab requires draining the body of blood and replacing it with *viscus vitae*, a mixture of angel's blood and lamp oil.
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If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
Some spells that instruct you to create a Blood token require targets. You can't cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won't resolve and you won't create any Blood tokens. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you'll do as much as possible, including creating Blood tokens.
You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
Print Details
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL)
- Number
- #351
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Sean Murray
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $0.22
- USD Foil
- $0.38
- EUR
- €0.10
- EUR Foil
- €0.28
- MTGO Tix
- 0.04
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