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Sacrifice
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Sacrifice is a deceptively simple black instant that turns one creature into a burst of ritual fuel, making it especially attractive in combo and value shells that can treat creatures as expendable resources. The card asks for an additional cost, so you must already have a creature to give up, but in return it refunds black mana equal to that creature’s mana value, often enabling explosive turns, recasting key spells, or chaining into a larger payoff immediately. It pairs naturally with tokens, recursive creatures, and death-trigger cards, since the loss is often more than compensated by the mana swing. In gameplay terms, it rewards careful resource planning rather than raw aggression: sacrifice a cheap token for a small tempo boost, or cash in a high-cost creature after extracting value from it. Decks built around aristocrats, graveyard recursion, or storm-like sequencing can exploit it best, while control decks may use it to convert a doomed blocker into a surprise mana advantage.
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Character Background
Sacrifice is a deceptively simple black instant that turns one creature into a burst of ritual fuel, making it especially attractive in combo and value shells that can treat creatures as expendable resources. The card asks for an additional cost, so you must already have a creature to give up, but in return it refunds black mana equal to that creature’s mana value, often enabling explosive turns, recasting key spells, or chaining into a larger payoff immediately. It pairs naturally with tokens, recursive creatures, and death-trigger cards, since the loss is often more than compensated by the mana swing. In gameplay terms, it rewards careful resource planning rather than raw aggression: sacrifice a cheap token for a small tempo boost, or cash in a high-cost creature after extracting value from it. Decks built around aristocrats, graveyard recursion, or storm-like sequencing can exploit it best, while control decks may use it to convert a doomed blocker into a surprise mana advantage.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 18:40:44 UTC