Sanguine Bond

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Combos

• Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

legendofa on Help me to build a …

1 week ago

What kind of combo are you looking for?

Lock combos (something like Teferi's Puzzle Box + Notion ThiefGC or Arcane Laboratory + Knowledge Pool) are pretty close to Stax and tend to lead to saltiness, but are as control-combo as you can get.

Instant win combos (Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank or Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond, for example) end the game fast, but need to be supported a little more, especially if the pieces don't do much by themselves.

"Open-ended" non-infinite combos (Rona, Tolarian Obliterator  ^Flip + Pestilence + Body of Knowledge) are the least salt-inducing, as long as you can finish them in a reasonable time, but they might not close out the game.

SaberTech on Help me to build a …

1 week ago

Yeah, I agree with Crow_Umbra. Slowing the game down with a bunch of wrath spells is going to get at least some of your opponents salty. If that's acceptable to you though, an option that pops to mind for me is Oloro, Ageless Ascetic.

• Lends itself well to a deck with a bunch of wraths because it can do something while still in the command zone.
• The deck can focus around planeswalkers and/or enchantments so you aren't as affected by your own wraths.
• Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood can be your main combo.
• Something like Virtue of Persistence is early removal and a potential late-game win condition by reanimating your opponents' dead creatures to use against them.
• Idyllic Tutor isn't on the Game Changers list but is still a good tutor to help you find your combo.

The downside is that it isn't exactly the cheapest deck to build if you don't already have a bunch of the cards.

YamishiTheWickedOne on What is a Man? (a hyper aggro Edgar Markov EDH)

1 month ago

@Vessiliana, hey. Have you seen Bloodthirsty Conqueror? I hate adding cards that are more than 4 mana but he's worth it imo. This guy + Vito + someone losing/gaining life is basically the Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood combo in creature form. As in it infinite combos for an instant win.

I saw they also made a card that's just straight up better Nighthawk as well.

Noxid05 on Should I Keep Greed in …

5 months ago

Do you find that you are often needing to use the card draw from Greed? If so it is probably worth keeping it. However, if your Greed is frequently getting destroyed Erebos, God of the Dead would probably be better, especially if life gain decks, or Sanguine Bond combos are frequent in your meta. If you only use your greed occasionally, and it doesn't get destroyed often Lunar Convocation as it has the the most utility imo outside of card draw. Hopefully this helps :)

Lord_Olga on My Life gain hurts huh?

6 months ago

both your commander and Sanguine Bond will go infinite with Exquisite Blood

Crow_Umbra on Thought I Was Dead? [Primer]

6 months ago

New Elenda seems like a lot of fun. Voltron/Lifegain seems like a fun mix that can also build you a decent buffer to crack backs, even without some of the other bells and whistles, or Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond shenanigans.

One of my friends in my main group recently started adding more lifegain to his decks as a means of buffering against the group slug and aggro heavy shenanigans of our group. So in turn, the rest of us added to existing decks or built The Lord of Pain lol. Playing with Lord of Pain in the 99, and against it this past weekend were a blast.

Totally understandable! Big life moves take priority over hobby stuff until you're both more settled in. Doesn't hurt to keep getting test reps in until you think you could put it together.

DemonDragonJ on How Can I Put Bloodthirsty …

6 months ago

WotC shall finally be printing a creature version of Exquisite Blood in foundations, in the form of bloodthirsty conqueror, and I obviously shall be putting that card into my Liesa, Shroud of Dusk deck, but I am not certain what card it should replace, so I wish to ask for advice from the other users here, about that matter.

It would be nice to have redundancy with Exquisite Blood, so I could replace Defiant Bloodlord with the conqueror, as I would still have plenty of cards that replicate the effect of Sanguine Bond, and doing that would also lower the mana curve of that deck, but, on the other hand, the bloodlord is a very nice flying beater, which I can also give lifelink, and Exquisite Blood costs 5 mana to cast, but does nothing on its own, so I also would have no difficulty in replacing it with its creature counterpart, as well, so it is a difficult decision, for me.

What does everyone else say about this subject? How can I put bloodthirsty conqueror into my Liesa deck?

Also, as a side note, why is it that bloodthirsty conqueror has the same mana value as Exquisite Blood, while Defiant Bloodlord is more expensive than is Sanguine Bond?

DemonDragonJ on 100 Shades of Gray

8 months ago

I have replaced Quietus Spike and Sanguine Bond with Enduring Tenacity and Unstoppable Slasher, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.95 to 3.93, because I feel that the newer cards are generally superior to the older cards.