Tainted Remedy
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Explorer Anthology 1 #7 (rare)
If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.
Tainted Remedy has 2 printings, first in Magic Origins (2015). EDHREC ranks it #6,753 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mister Negative decks (3,427 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Tainted Remedy most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mister Negative: 3,427 decks
- Liesa, Shroud of Dusk: 999 decks
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer: 641 decks
- Astarion, the Decadent: 583 decks
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose: 437 decks
- Mathas, Fiend Seeker: 377 decks
- Kambal, Consul of Allocation: 332 decks
- Selenia, Dark Angel: 289 decks
Often played with Tainted Remedy
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Having more than one Tainted Remedy on the battlefield doesn’t have any noticeable effect on life gain. Once the effect of one Tainted Remedy applies, there is no life gain for the others to apply to.
- : If more than one replacement effect tries to apply to a life gain event, the player who would gain life chooses the order in which they apply. For example, if a player who controls Alhammarret’s Archive would gain 3 life while Tainted Remedy is on the battlefield, that player may choose to have the 3 life become doubled to 6 life and then lose 6 life. The player may also choose to apply Tainted Remedy first, turning “gain 3 life” into “lose 3 life.” Alhammarret’s Archive would then not apply.