Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Vampire Warlock // Legendary Creature — Human Druid
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #333 (rare)
- Price
- $5.47 USD
Valentin, Dean of the Vein
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
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Lisette, Dean of the Root
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root has 5 printings, first in Strixhaven: School of Mages (2021). EDHREC ranks it #7,921 among Commander cards. 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
- From Cute to Brute - Secret Lair Drop, led by Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
Often played with Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
- Moment of Truth
- Plargg, Dean of Chaos
- Rowan, Scholar of Sparks
- Arlinn, the Pack's Hope
- Professor of Zoomancy
- Containment Breach
- Hunt for Specimens
- Pestilent Cauldron
- Shaile, Dean of Radiance
- Kytheon, Hero of Akros
Rulings
- : If you gain life at the same time a creature you control is dealt lethal damage, that creature dies before Lisette’s ability can put a +1/+1 counter on it.
- : If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, and both Valentin and another effect are trying to exile it instead, that opponent chooses which effect to apply. If Valentin’s effect ends up not applying because of this choice, the triggered ability that allows you to pay {2} won’t trigger, even if the creature card ends up in exile.
- : If you gain an amount of life “for each” of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability will trigger only once.
- : You may only pay {1} once for each life gain event.
- : An ability that triggers “whenever you gain life” triggers just once for each life-gaining event, no matter how much life you gain.
- : Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, a “whenever you gain life” ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.