mtg drain life cards Magic: the Gathering - Drain Life deals X damage to target creature or player Magic the Gathering German Drain

If you do have extra combat steps, though, this ends games

My mom and dad had renovated and built parts of it together, my mom even doing so while she was pregnant with me

Well use the activated ability when someone targets one of our other creatures with removal, replacing it and gaining a little life at the same time

For 2 mana, you get other effects that are better like Animate Dead

Richard Garfield used this to design the games mana system and left this fun little credit to Larry Niven on Nevinyrral's Disk in the games original set

The deck starts with casting efficiently-costed creatures with strong secondary abilities