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Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric MV 3

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What it does

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

3: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Combos with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

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Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-06-23

    In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.

  • 2020-06-23

    If an ability triggers whenever an opponent loses life and causes you to gain life, such as the ability of Exquisite Blood, this will loop until either you win the game or a player takes an action to break the loop.

  • 2020-06-23

    Because Vito's first ability doesn't deal damage, you won't gain life when it resolves if Vito has lifelink.

  • 2020-06-23

    If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something, that life is gained as one event and Vito's first ability triggers only once.

  • 2020-06-23

    Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Vito's first ability will trigger twice and you may choose a different opponent for each trigger. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.

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

As a commander

Decks built with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose in the command zone.

Decks led 1 1 published — browse them →
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

Published decks

Decklists players have published with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 18
Games played 2
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
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 0 —
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 1 1 —
Athreos, God of Passage 1 0 —
Clavileño, First of the Blessed 1 0 —
Edgar Markov 1 0 —
Karlov of the Ghost Council 1 0 —
M.O.D.O.K. 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 5 decks
  • Esper 4 decks
  • Orzhov 3 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Abzan 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

13 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 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose — 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.