Gray Merchant of Asphodel
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SetDSC
Collector #142
Released2024-09-27
Rarityuncommon
ArtistScott Murphy
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

UncommonColour IDMV 5
Creature — Zombie
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 in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
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Card capabilities
CreatureLife loss
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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Rulings (6)
wotc19 Mar 2021
The amount of life you gain is the total amount of life lost, not simply the value of X.
wotc24 Jan 2020
Colorless 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.
wotc24 Jan 2020
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
wotc24 Jan 2020
If 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.
wotc24 Jan 2020
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
wotc24 Jan 2020
If 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.