---
name: "Blood Operative"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Creature — Vampire Assassin"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Lifelink"]
set: "PGRN"
set_name: "Guilds of Ravnica Promos"
collector_number: "63s"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Livia Prima"
oracle_id: "ef75da10-1b33-4066-bd42-1111b5a94f75"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/blood-operative-pgrn"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Blood Operative
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Creature — Vampire Assassin
- **Keywords:** Lifelink

## Oracle Text
Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.
Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Sanguine Spy](/printing/sanguine-spy-snc.md) — Creature — Vampire Rogue
2. [Bloodline Necromancer](/printing/bloodline-necromancer-lcc.md) — Creature — Vampire Wizard
3. [Desperate Bloodseeker](/printing/desperate-bloodseeker-otj.md) — Creature — Vampire
4. [Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord](/printing/sorin-vengeful-bloodlord-war.md) — Legendary Planeswalker — Sorin
5. [Vampire Outcasts](/printing/vampire-outcasts-mm2.md) — Creature — Vampire
6. [Blood Glutton](/printing/blood-glutton-m21.md) — Creature — Vampire

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Guilds of Ravnica Promos (PGRN) #63s
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Livia Prima
- **Total Printings:** 2 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2018-10-05)* If you surveil and put Blood Operative into your graveyard as you do so, its ability triggers once you've finished surveilling.
- *(2018-10-05)* No player may take actions between the time you choose to pay 3 life and the time you return Blood Operative to your hand.
- *(2024-01-12)* An ability that triggers "whenever you surveil" triggers after you're done surveilling, even if you have fewer cards in your library than the number of cards you're instructed to surveil. It even triggers if you have no cards in your library.