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Creature — Zombie · THS #89 · common
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
$0.78
versions · 10 printings
format pulse
- standard not legal
- pioneer legal
- modern legal
- legacy legal
- vintage legal
- commander legal
- pauper legal
EDHREC #242
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When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
rulings
- 2020-01-24If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
- 2020-01-24Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2020-01-24If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
- 2020-01-24Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- 2020-01-24Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
- 2021-03-19The amount of life you gain is the total amount of life lost, not simply the value of X.