Blood Tribute
Blood Tribute: Sorcery, Commander 2017. Kicker-Tap an untapped Vampire you control. Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander 2017 (C17)
- Released
- 2017-08-25
- Collector number
- 100
- Artist
- Volkan Baǵa
- Commander rank
- 6,035 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Kicker
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About Blood Tribute
Blood Tribute is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black sorcery from Commander 2017 (C17), a Commander product released in August 2017. It is collector number 100 in that set, with art by Volkan Baǵa. It costs {4}{B}{B} (four generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Zendikar (2009) to Commander 2017 (2017). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.10 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Kicker-Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.10 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Blood Tribute by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Blood Tribute
Blood Tribute has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Zendikar (ZEN) #81 | Rare | 2009 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Blood Tribute, newest first.
- To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
- If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
- If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
- If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
- The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
- You can tap a creature that hasn't been under your control since your most recent turn began to pay the kicker cost.
Similar cards
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