The Book of Vile Darkness
Legendary Artifact — Book
- Border
- black
- Security stamp
- oval
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- ~1 in 140
- Illustrator
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Found in
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Prerelease Pack
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.Plays as: Creature Token Maker
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- WotCJul 23, 2021
In some strange cases, you might make something into a copy of the Eye and/or Hand of Vecna and then exile that copy to activate The Book of Vile Darkness's ability. The ability that creates Vecna will look at the cards in exile, not the permanents on the battlefield, so it's possible to have Vecna gain different triggered abilities.
- WotCJul 23, 2021
In the vast majority of cases, Vecna will gain the triggered ability printed on Hand of Vecna and the two triggered abilities printed on Eye of Vecna.
- WotCJul 23, 2021
The Book of Vile Darkness has received an update to its Oracle text. Specifically, the triggered abilities that Vecna gains are part of its copiable values. This means any enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities it gains (such as the one from Eye of Vecna) will trigger.