Blood
Blood is a predefined token and artifact type introduced in Innistrad: Crimson Vow. In this set, it is mechanically tied to vampires, and mainly appears in black and red.
Blood is a predefined token and artifact type introduced in Innistrad: Crimson Vow. In this set, it is mechanically tied to vampires, and mainly appears in black and red.
Description
The type only appears on predefined tokens. Blood tokens have "
, 
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card." They are cheaper to activate than Clue tokens, but have the added cost of discarding a card, which make them more appealing to sacrifice for other outlets, like how Food had various secondary sacrifice payoffs. Unlike Clue tokens, Blood tokens have to be tapped before sacrifice.
Blood tokens are simple, versatile tokens that offer you a way to trade in cards in the late game for chances to draw something more useful. They are especially suited to sets and decks that use the graveyard as a resource. Like the similar Cycling ability, it also fits nicely in Madness decks. Flavorfully, a lot of dark magic uses blood as a component. In specific, the design plays into blood omens (aka using blood as a means to see the future).
Blood tokens prompted a rules change where the word "Token" is now in the name of all tokens created by specifying only a subtype rather than a name. Thus the name of a Blood token is literally "Blood Token", not "Blood". This avoids the possibility of using Pithing Needle on Blood tokens by naming the "Blood" side of the card Flesh // Blood or other name overlaps.
Blood tokens are considered to be deciduous.
Rules
Rulings
- If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
- You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
- Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
- Some spells that instruct you to create a Blood token require targets. You can't cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won't resolve and you won't create any Blood tokens. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you'll do as much as possible, including creating Blood tokens.