---
name: "Marauding Blight-Priest"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Creature — Vampire Cleric"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "FDN"
set_name: "Foundations"
collector_number: "178"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Caio Monteiro"
oracle_id: "814b87fe-2a75-4ff2-8637-7e69e3fb285b"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/marauding-blight-priest-fdn"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Marauding Blight-Priest
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Creature — Vampire Cleric

## Oracle Text
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

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## Printing Details
- **Set:** Foundations (FDN) #178
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Caio Monteiro

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

## Official Rulings
- *(2024-11-08)* Marauding Blight-Priest's ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Dazzling Angel or 4 life from Apothecary Stomper.
- *(2024-11-08)* If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and Marauding Blight-Priest's ability will trigger only once.
- *(2024-11-08)* In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause Marauding Blight-Priest's ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
- *(2024-11-08)* 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, Marauding Blight-Priest's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.