Afflict is a triggered keyword ability that makes the defending player lose life for blocking.
Expansion Info[]
Afflict was introduced into Magic Arena with Hour of Devastation (closed beta).
Card/Color Distribution[]
Afflict can often be found on 
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creatures.
Video[]
Watch this explanatory video to see how this game concept works.
Hour of Devastation Spotlight Afflict
Comprehensive Rules[]
Comprehensive Rules Glossary (August 7, 2020)
- Afflict
- A keyword ability that makes the defending player lose life for blocking. See rule 702.129, “Afflict.”
Comprehensive Rules (August 7, 2020)
- 702.129. Afflict
- 702.129a Afflict is a triggered ability. “Afflict N” means “Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses N life.”
- 702.129b If a creature has multiple instances of afflict, each triggers separately.
Afflict Card List[]
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Acolyte of Affliction   (4)Creature — Human Cleric (2/3) When Acolyte of Affliction enters the battlefield, mill two cards, then you may return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. |
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| Abilities | Evergreen Abilities: Deathtouch • Defender • Double Strike • Enchant • Equip • First Strike • Flash • Flying • Haste • Hexproof • Indestructible • Lifelink • Menace • Prowess • Reach • Trample • Vigilance • Ward
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| Other Keyword Abilities: Affinity • Afflict • Afterlife • Aftermath • Ascend • Blitz • Boast • Cascade • Casualty • Changeling • Cleave • Companion • Compleated • Convoke • Crew • Cycling • Decayed • Disturb • Embalm • Escape • Eternalize • Evoke • Evolve • Exalted • Exploit • Fabricate • Fear • Flashback • Foretell • Hideaway • Improvise • Jump-Start • Kicker • Landwalk • Living Weapon • Madness • Menace • Mentor • Modular • Mutate • Ninjutsu • Outlast • Overload • Persist • Protection • Prowess • Rebound • Reconfigure • Riot • Scavenge • Shroud • Spectacle • Split Second • Storm • Training • Transform • Undying • Unearth
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| Ability Words | Addendum • Constellation • Enrage • Landfall • Magecraft • Raid • Revolt • Undergrowth | |
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| Actions | Adapt • Amass • Connive • Exert • Explore • Investigate • Learn • Phase out • Proliferate • Surveil • Venture into the Dungeon | |