The Book of Vile Darkness
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SetPRM
Collector #92694
Released2021-12-21
Raritymythic
ArtistDaniel Ljunggren
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesPromo · Reprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

The Book of Vile Darkness

MythicColour IDMV 3
Legendary Artifact — Book
At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.
Card capabilities
Artifact
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
5 other English printingsEarliest 2021-07-23Newest 2021-07-23Cheapest priced $0.48 in AFR
Rulings (3)
wotc23 Jul 2021
In the vast majority of cases, Vecna will gain the triggered ability printed on Hand of Vecna and the two triggered abilities printed on Eye of Vecna.
wotc23 Jul 2021
The Book of Vile Darkness has received an update to its Oracle text. Specifically, the triggered abilities that Vecna gains are part of its copiable values. This means any enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities it gains (such as the one from Eye of Vecna) will trigger.
wotc23 Jul 2021
In some strange cases, you might make something into a copy of the Eye and/or Hand of Vecna and then exile that copy to activate The Book of Vile Darkness's ability. The ability that creates Vecna will look at the cards in exile, not the permanents on the battlefield, so it's possible to have Vecna gain different triggered abilities.