AI DraftFeb 26, 2026
Blood Celebrant + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Vilis, Broker of Blood
Overview
You control Blood Celebrant, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Vilis, Broker of Blood. Paying life as a cost (for Blood Celebrant or Vilis’s activated ability) causes you to lose life and, per Ruling [2019-07-12], paying life is loss of life. That loss of life will cause Vilis’s triggered ability (“Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards.”) to trigger and eventually draw you that many cards. Each card you draw from Vilis’s trigger then causes Sheoldred’s triggered ability (“Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.”) to trigger once per card drawn, so you gain 2 life per card drawn.
Step 1
You activate Blood Celebrant’s ability and pay 
and the 'Pay 1 life' cost; paying life as a cost causes you to lose 1 life and, per Ruling [2019-07-12], paying life is loss of life.
and the 'Pay 1 life' cost; paying life as a cost causes you to lose 1 life and, per Ruling [2019-07-12], paying life is loss of life.Step 2
That loss of life is a game event that causes Vilis’s triggered ability ('Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards.') to trigger; a triggered ability is created and put on the stack.
Step 3
When Vilis’s triggered ability resolves you draw cards equal to the life you lost (in this example, 1 card).
Step 4
Each card you draw is an event that causes Sheoldred’s triggered ability ('Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.') to trigger; you get one Sheoldred trigger per card drawn.
Step 5
When each Sheoldred trigger resolves you gain 2 life per trigger, so drawing 1 card = +2 life, drawing 2 cards = +4 life, and so on.
Resolution
When you pay life using Blood Celebrant’s ability or Vilis’s activated ability, you lose that much life (payment-as-cost is life loss) ; that life loss will cause Vilis’s trigger to be generated (you draw that many cards), and each card drawn by that trigger causes a separate Sheoldred draw trigger to resolve and gain you 2 life per card. In short: paying 1 life via Blood Celebrant -> Vilis draws 1 card -> Sheoldred grants you 2 life; paying 2 life to Vilis -> Vilis draws 2 cards -> Sheoldred triggers twice and you gain 4 life. See Ruling [2019-07-12] and .
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