How Blood Tokens work in Magic: The Gathering Arena

Publish date: 2024-06-29

How Blood Tokens Work

Crimson Vow is full of vampires and their constant need to feed on fresh blood. To represent this aspect in MTG: Arena, Wizards of the Coast created blood tokens. Blood tokens must be tapped, cost one colorless, and are sacrificed once they are activated. In doing so, you can draw a new card with the chance of drawing a more powerful or useful one, however, you must also discard one card in your hand.

How to Create a Blood Token

Blood tokens are created by other card effects. For instance, summoning the card Gluttonous Guest instantly creates a blood token. Plus, whenever you sacrifice a blood token, Gluttonous Guest causes you to gain one life. Blood tokens are placed on the battlefield and can be activated on your turn. You can have up to 250 tokens on the battlefield at one time.

Other Uses for Blood Tokens

Blood tokens are great for getting rid of cards you may no longer need. If you have too many lands or weak creatures, you can discard them along with sacrificing a blood token to draw another card. You may be able to draw something even better that replaces the land or creature. Having access to scry is also useful as you can see what cards are on the top of your deck and then use a blood token to draw them.

About the author

Scott Roepel

Scott Roepel, also goes by Dorian, is a writer, journalist, and co-author of the fantasy book series Thread of Souls. Ever since he could pick up a controller, he's been playing games. His passion for storytelling led to him starting a homebrew TTRPG campaign that he now co-authors as a book series with his wife. A lover of stories and fantasy, if he isn't playing a video game, he's writing about one or creating his own world.

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How Blood Tokens work in Magic: The Gathering Arena