Syphon Essence
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow #84 (common)
- Price
- $0.23 USD
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Syphon Essence has 2 printings, first in Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021). EDHREC ranks it #21,919 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy decks (192 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Syphon Essence most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy: 192 decks
- Akal Pakal, First Among Equals: 34 decks
- Hama, the Bloodbender: 28 decks
- Nyssa of Traken: 1 decks
- Falcon, Winged Wonder: 1 decks
- Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
Often played with Syphon Essence
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
- : Some spells that instruct you to create a Blood token require targets. You can't cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won't resolve and you won't create any Blood tokens. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you'll do as much as possible, including creating Blood tokens.
- : You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
- : Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.