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Art by Tony Szczudlo
Tony Szczudlo

Essence Drain

Darksteel #43
Common Non-foil Traditional foil EN

Released · Illustrated by Tony Szczudlo

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Mephidross claims all life within it. What cannot be twisted is absorbed.

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Non-foil

$0.12 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.35 as of 2026-10-07
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.04 as of 2026-10-08
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-07
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.12 as of 2026-10-08

Traditional foil

$0.49 High confidence
  • Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-10-07
  • Retail Cardmarket $0.26 as of 2026-10-08
  • Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-10-07
  • Retail TCGplayer $0.49 as of 2026-10-08
  • Buylist Card Kingdom $0.08 as of 2026-09-28

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Price history

Foil

7 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 08 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

Non-foil

7 d 0.0%

Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 08 Oct 2026, one point per day we recorded one.

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Oracle text

Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Legalities

Legal Not legal

Standard
Pioneer
Modern
Legacy
Vintage
Pauper
Premodern
Old School
Future
Commander
Duel Commander
Oathbreaker
Pauper Commander
PreDH
Brawl
Standard Brawl
Historic
Timeless
Alchemy
Gladiator
Penny Dreadful
tlr
competitivebrawl

Identifiers and data

Scryfall id
9950052e-f674-4f09-802e-3f5f52f5e717
Oracle id
4bf5402f-7bba-4c0c-aebd-1b231768f2b2
Illustration id
d76c4298-8848-4922-b4bd-a7af9d719a10
Card back id
0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
Multiverse ids
50536
MTGO id
20457
TCGplayer id
11673
Cardmarket id
385
MTGJSON uuid
1415fd15-bba0-5ac8-ade8-5505f6f6c205
Card Kingdom id
110410
Cardsphere id
12595
Set code
DST
Collector number
43
Layout
normal
Frame
2003
Border
black
Booster
Yes
Games
paper, mtgo
Story spotlight
No
Reserved list
No
EDHREC rank
26385

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Other printings

Magic 2013 #93 Salvat 2011 #68 Duels of the Planeswalkers #24 Tenth Edition #141