The Book of Vile Darkness

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms • #374 • mythic

Legendary Artifact — Book |

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Live Value $1.40

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The Book of Vile Darkness

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms • #374 • mythic

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$1.4

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Rarity

mythic

Set Origin

AFR

Daily Shift

-0.71%

EDHREC Rank

#15,356

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Oracle Data

Card Type Legendary Artifact — Book

Color Identity Black

🖋️ Curator's Notes

At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

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Official Judge Precedents

3 Precedents

2021-07-23

The Book of Vile Darkness has received an update to its Oracle text. Specifically, the triggered abilities that Vecna gains are part of its copiable values. This means any enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities it gains (such as the one from Eye of Vecna) will trigger.

2021-07-23

In the vast majority of cases, Vecna will gain the triggered ability printed on Hand of Vecna and the two triggered abilities printed on Eye of Vecna.

2021-07-23

In some strange cases, you might make something into a copy of the Eye and/or Hand of Vecna and then exile that copy to activate The Book of Vile Darkness's ability. The ability that creates Vecna will look at the cards in exile, not the permanents on the battlefield, so it's possible to have Vecna gain different triggered abilities.

📜 Technical Attributes

Release Date: 2021-07-23

Set Name: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms

Artist Reference: Daniel Ljunggren

Border Profile: black

✨ Variants & Finishes

Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil

Promo Status boosterfun

Edition Status Original Printing