Vitality Salve
Battle the Horde 15 • common
- Set
- Battle the Horde
- Collector number
- 15
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Daren Bader
- Market price
- $1.77
What it does
At the beginning of the Horde's first main phase, reveal an additional card from the top of the Horde's library. The Horde casts that card.
Hero's Reward — When Vitality Salve is put into a graveyard from anywhere, each player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
Vitality Salve was released as card number 15 in the 2013 Battle the Horde set, which introduced a cooperative survival gameplay variant for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Designed by the team at Wizards of the Coast, this card was specifically intended to provide players with a recurring healing mechanic to counter the aggressive, automated waves of creatures featured in the Horde deck. The design emphasizes the defensive nature of the set, focusing on resource management during high-pressure, player-versus-environment scenarios.
The artwork for the card follows the distinct high-fantasy aesthetic associated with the Theros block era, employing rich colors and dramatic lighting to convey a sense of restorative magic. While individual illustrators contribute to these sets, the visual identity of the Battle the Horde release was guided by a desire to evoke classic mythological themes. The card was well-received by the casual community for its utility in balancing the difficulty of the cooperative encounter, becoming a staple in thematic Horde-style decks.
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