Blood Operative
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Vampire Assassin
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 1
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica #63 (rare)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.
Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.
Blood Operative has 2 printings, first in Guilds of Ravnica (2018). EDHREC ranks it #19,002 among Commander cards. It appears most in Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad decks (526 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Blood Operative most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad: 526 decks
- Desmond Miles: 122 decks
- Lydia Frye: 91 decks
- Nog, Ambitious Cadet: 3 decks
- Jacob Frye
Often played with Blood Operative
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you surveil and put Blood Operative into your graveyard as you do so, its ability triggers once you've finished surveilling.
- : No player may take actions between the time you choose to pay 3 life and the time you return Blood Operative to your hand.
- : An ability that triggers "whenever you surveil" triggers after you're done surveilling, even if you have fewer cards in your library than the number of cards you're instructed to surveil. It even triggers if you have no cards in your library.