Essence Drain #43
DST
Darksteel
EN
Details
Essence Drain
Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Mephidross claims all life within it. What cannot be twisted is absorbed.
Set Name
Darksteel
Set Code
DST
Set Series
Darksteel
Card Number
43
Language
EN
Variant
Regular Version
Rarity
Common
Colour
B
Play Cost
{4}{B}
Card Type
Sorcery
Illustrator
Tony Szczudlo
Release Date
6 Feb 2004
TCGPlayer ID
11673
Cardmarket ID
385
MTGO ID
20457
PriceCharting ID
2235849
Scryfall ID
9950052e-f674-4f09-802e-3f5f52f5e717
Barcode
9024253909119
Larrikin Market Pricing
To understand its value, here's an international market summary. It seems to be selling around $0.50 – $0.78.
$0.50 – $0.78
View a source's price:
Market confidence
Low
Volume
Medium
Updated
14 Sep 2026
Darksteel
Magic: The Gathering · EN · DST
| # | Name | Variants |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auriok Glaivemaster | |
| 10 | Pteron Ghost | |
| 100 | Arcbound Ravager | |
| 101 | Arcbound Reclaimer | |
| 102 | Arcbound Slith | |
| 103 | Arcbound Stinger | |
| 104 | Arcbound Worker | |
| 105 | Auriok Siege Sled | |
| 106 | Chimeric Egg | |
| 107 | Coretapper | |
| 108 | Darksteel Brute | |
| 109 | Darksteel Colossus | |
| 11 | Pulse of the Fields | |
| 110 | Darksteel Forge | |
| 111 | Darksteel Gargoyle | |
| 112 | Darksteel Ingot | |
| 113 | Darksteel Pendant | |
| 114 | Darksteel Reactor | |
| 115 | Death-Mask Duplicant | |
| 116 | Demon's Horn | |
| 117 | Dragon's Claw | |
| 118 | Drill-Skimmer | |
| 119 | Dross Golem | |
| 12 | Purge | |
| 120 | Eater of Days | |
| 121 | Gemini Engine | |
| 122 | Genesis Chamber | |
| 123 | Geth's Grimoire | |
| 124 | Heartseeker | |
| 125 | Juggernaut | |
| 126 | Kraken's Eye | |
| 127 | Leonin Bola | |
| 128 | Lich's Tomb | |
| 129 | Memnarch | |
| 13 | Ritual of Restoration | |
| 130 | Mycosynth Lattice | |
| 131 | Myr Landshaper | |
| 132 | Myr Matrix | |
| 133 | Myr Moonvessel | |
| 134 | Nemesis Mask | |
| 135 | Oxidda Golem | |
| 136 | Panoptic Mirror | |
| 137 | Razor Golem | |
| 138 | Serum Powder | |
| 139 | Shield of Kaldra | |
| 14 | Soulscour | |
| 140 | Skullclamp | |
| 141 | Spawning Pit | |
| 142 | Specter's Shroud | |
| 143 | Spellbinder | |
| 144 | Spincrusher | |
| 145 | Spire Golem | |
| 146 | Sundering Titan | |
| 147 | Surestrike Trident | |
| 148 | Sword of Fire and Ice | |
| 149 | Sword of Light and Shadow | |
| 15 | Steelshaper Apprentice | |
| 150 | Talon of Pain | |
| 151 | Tangle Golem | |
| 152 | Thought Dissector | |
| 153 | Thunderstaff | |
| 154 | Trinisphere | |
| 155 | Ur-Golem's Eye | |
| 156 | Voltaic Construct | |
| 157 | Vulshok Morningstar | |
| 158 | Wand of the Elements | |
| 159 | Well of Lost Dreams | |
| 16 | Stir the Pride | |
| 160 | Whispersilk Cloak | |
| 161 | Wirefly Hive | |
| 162 | Wurm's Tooth | |
| 163 | Blinkmoth Nexus | |
| 164 | Darksteel Citadel | |
| 165 | Mirrodin's Core | |
| 17 | Test of Faith | |
| 18 | Turn the Tables | |
| 19 | Carry Away | |
| 2 | Echoing Calm | |
| 20 | Chromescale Drake | |
| 21 | Echoing Truth | |
| 22 | Hoverguard Observer | |
| 23 | Last Word | |
| 24 | Machinate | |
| 25 | Magnetic Flux | |
| 26 | Neurok Prodigy | |
| 27 | Neurok Transmuter | |
| 28 | Psychic Overload | |
| 29 | Pulse of the Grid | |
| 3 | Emissary of Hope | |
| 30 | Quicksilver Behemoth | |
| 31 | Reshape | |
| 32 | Retract | |
| 33 | Second Sight | |
| 34 | Synod Artificer | |
| 35 | Vedalken Engineer | |
| 36 | Vex | |
| 37 | Aether Snap | |
| 38 | Burden of Greed | |
| 39 | Chittering Rats | |
| 4 | Hallow | |
| 40 | Death Cloud | |
| 41 | Echoing Decay | |
| 42 | Emissary of Despair | |
| 43 | Essence Drain | |
| 44 | Greater Harvester | |
| 45 | Grimclaw Bats | |
| 46 | Hunger of the Nim | |
| 47 | Mephitic Ooze | |
| 48 | Murderous Spoils | |
| 49 | Nim Abomination | |
| 5 | Leonin Battlemage | |
| 50 | Pulse of the Dross | |
| 51 | Scavenging Scarab | |
| 52 | Screams from Within | |
| 53 | Scrounge | |
| 54 | Shriveling Rot | |
| 55 | Barbed Lightning | |
| 56 | Crazed Goblin | |
| 57 | Dismantle | |
| 58 | Drooling Ogre | |
| 59 | Echoing Ruin | |
| 6 | Leonin Shikari | |
| 60 | Fireball | |
| 61 | Flamebreak | |
| 62 | Furnace Dragon | |
| 63 | Goblin Archaeologist | |
| 64 | Inflame | |
| 65 | Krark-Clan Stoker | |
| 66 | Pulse of the Forge | |
| 67 | Savage Beating | |
| 68 | Shunt | |
| 69 | Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer | |
| 7 | Loxodon Mystic | |
| 70 | Tears of Rage | |
| 71 | Unforge | |
| 72 | Vulshok War Boar | |
| 73 | Ageless Entity | |
| 74 | Echoing Courage | |
| 75 | Fangren Firstborn | |
| 76 | Infested Roothold | |
| 77 | Karstoderm | |
| 78 | Nourish | |
| 79 | Oxidize | |
| 8 | Metal Fatigue | |
| 80 | Pulse of the Tangle | |
| 81 | Reap and Sow | |
| 82 | Rebuking Ceremony | |
| 83 | Roaring Slagwurm | |
| 84 | Stand Together | |
| 85 | Tangle Spider | |
| 86 | Tanglewalker | |
| 87 | Tel-Jilad Outrider | |
| 88 | Tel-Jilad Wolf | |
| 89 | Viridian Acolyte | |
| 9 | Pristine Angel | |
| 90 | Viridian Zealot | |
| 91 | Aether Vial | |
| 92 | Angel's Feather | |
| 93 | Arcane Spyglass | |
| 94 | Arcbound Bruiser | |
| 95 | Arcbound Crusher | |
| 96 | Arcbound Fiend | |
| 97 | Arcbound Hybrid | |
| 98 | Arcbound Lancer | |
| 99 | Arcbound Overseer |
Currently out of stock
Price
Price unavailable
Larrikin Market Pricing
Selling around $0.50 – $0.78.
$0.50 – $0.78
Sources:
Market confidence
Low
Volume
Medium
Updated
14 Sep 2026
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