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Preacher of the Schism

Creature — Vampire Cleric MV 3

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What it does

Deathtouch

Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-11-10

    Preacher of the Schism's middle ability triggers only if it attacks a player. It won't trigger if Preacher of the Schism attacks a planeswalker or battle, no matter what its controller's life total is.

  • 2023-11-10

    If you are tied for most life and Preacher of the Schism attacks another player who is tied for most life, both its middle and its last ability will trigger.

  • 2023-11-10

    Once Preacher of the Schism's middle ability triggers, it doesn't matter what happens to players' life totals before the ability resolves. You'll create a Vampire token even if the player Preacher of the Schism attacked doesn't have the most life as the ability resolves.

  • 2023-11-10

    Similarly, once Preacher of the Schism's last ability triggers, it doesn't matter what happens to players' life totals before the ability resolves. You'll draw a card and lose 1 life even if you don't have the most life as the ability resolves.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Preacher of the Schism, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Clavileño, First of the Blessed 1 0 —
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Preacher of the Schism

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Preacher of the Schism — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.