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Vela the Night-Clad

Vela the Night-Clad

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Vela the Night-Clad wants a deck that sacrifices its own creatures to drain opponents' life. It also works in a deck built around Humans or Wizards.

  • Mana cost4 genericblueblack
  • Blue, Black ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 4
  • RarityMythic

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Other creatures you control have intimidate.

Whenever Vela or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Cards That Fit Vela the Night-Clad

Picked for what they do in Vela the Night-Clad's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Vela the Night-Clad's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Vela the Night-Clad

explain how Vela the Night-Clad works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 1 Jun 2012

If Vela leaves the battlefield at the same time as other creatures you control, its ability will trigger for each of those creatures.

1 ruling, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Vela the Night-Clad, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryUBPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue, B for black. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.AristocratsAristocrats decks sacrifice their own creatures on purpose and profit every time one dies, often by draining life from each opponent. A sacrifice outlet, a card that lets you sacrifice whenever you like, decides when that happens.Open the Aristocrats pageLife DrainAn opponent loses life and you gain that life from the same effect. Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat. It lets Aristocrats decks win without ever attacking. Every drain card is also tagged Life Gain; this tag is the part where the life comes out of somebody.Open the Life Drain pageEvasionAn ability that makes a creature hard to block, so its attacks reach the player. Flying, menace, landwalk and plain 'can't be blocked' are the common kinds.Open the Evasion page