Sanguine Bond
Sanguine Bond: Enchantment, Commander 2021. Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander 2021 (C21)
- Released
- 2021-04-23
- Collector number
- 153
- Artist
- Jaime Jones
- Commander rank
- 500 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Sanguine Bond
Sanguine Bond is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black enchantment from Commander 2021 (C21), a Commander product released in April 2021. It is collector number 153 in that set, with art by Jaime Jones. It costs {3}{B}{B} (three generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 10 sets, from Magic 2010 (2009) to Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $6.07 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed." -Vradeen, vampire nocturnus
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $6.07 (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 Sanguine Bond by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Sanguine Bond
Sanguine Bond has been printed in 10 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1799 | Rare | 2024 |
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales (WOT) #35 | Rare | 2023 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #208 | Rare | 2023 |
| Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) #330 | Special | 2021 |
| Iconic Masters (IMA) #107 | Uncommon | 2017 |
| Commander 2017 (C17) #124 | Rare | 2017 |
| Commander 2013 (C13) #92 | Rare | 2013 |
| Magic 2014 (M14) #112 | Rare | 2013 |
| Magic 2010 (M10) #111 | Rare | 2009 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Sanguine Bond, newest first.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause Sanguine Bond's ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
- 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, Sanguine Bond's ability will trigger twice and you may choose a different opponent for each trigger. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
- If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something, that life is gained as one event and Sanguine Bond's ability triggers only once.
- If an ability triggers whenever an opponent loses life and causes you to gain life, such as the ability of Exquisite Blood, this will loop until either you win the game or a player takes an action to break the loop. If neither of these happen, the game ends in a draw.
- Sanguine Bond's ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Soul Warden or 8 life from Tendrils of Corruption.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Sanguine Bond is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.