Syphon Essence
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-01-24
If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
- 2025-01-24
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.
- 2025-01-24
You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
- 2025-01-24
Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Syphon Essence, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisa and Geralf | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Dimir 1 deck
Syphon Essence price history
The Innistrad: Crimson Vow #84 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.07 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.07 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.07 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.06 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Syphon Essence
2 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Inverted
Innistrad: Double Feature
- Normal
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.38
- Normal
- $0.25
- Foil
- $0.07
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Syphon Essence. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
