Blood Scrivener
Dragon's Maze 22 • rare
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Collector number
- 22
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Peter Mohrbacher
- Market price
- $0.31
What it does
If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.
Make sure you bleed the fine print.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Blood Scrivener was released in the 2013 Magic: The Gathering set Dragon's Maze. Designed as a rare black creature, it features a thematic mechanic centered on the graveyard and hand size, reflecting the macabre, scholarly aesthetic of the Orzhov Syndicate guild. The card embodies the guild's focus on transactional power and life-debt, playing into the expansion's multi-color design philosophy.
The artwork was illustrated by Terese Nielsen, a prominent figure in Magic: The Gathering's visual history. Nielsen utilized her signature atmospheric style to depict the scrivener as a grotesque, focused entity surrounded by the tools of dark bureaucracy. The card was generally viewed by the player base as a niche utility piece for aggressive black decks, praised more for its evocative conceptual design than its competitive dominance.
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