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Birthing Ritual

Enchantment MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-06-07

    Birthing Ritual's ability checks if you control a creature at the beginning of your end step. If you don't, the ability won't trigger.

  • 2024-06-07

    If one of the revealed creature cards has X in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining that card's mana value.

  • 2024-06-07

    Use the mana value of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine the value of X.

  • 2024-06-07

    If Birthing Ritual's ability does trigger but you control no creatures when it tries to resolve, the ability will do nothing.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Birthing Ritual, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 3
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
The Mycotyrant 1 2 —
Tromell, Seymour's Butler 1 1 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Golgari 1 deck
  • Mono-Green 1 deck

Every version of Birthing Ritual

3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Birthing Ritual — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.