Vampiric Touch
Portal 115 • common
- Set
- Portal
- Collector number
- 115
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Zina Saunders
- Market price
- $0.18
What it does
Vampiric Touch deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker and you gain 2 life.
A touch, not comforting, but of death.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Vampiric Touch was released in 1997 as part of the Portal set, a standalone product designed by Wizards of the Coast to introduce new players to the Magic: The Gathering ecosystem. The set replaced complex, instant-speed interactions with simplified mechanics and sorcery-speed gameplay to create a more accessible learning curve for beginners during the late nineties.
The card features artwork by Zina Saunders, who contributed illustrations to early Magic sets with a focus on evocative, atmospheric imagery. Her depiction of the spell emphasizes the visceral nature of the effect, grounding the card's function of draining life from an opponent within the dark, gothic aesthetic that defined the flavor of the set's black-aligned cards.
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