Blasphemous Act card art

Blasphemous Act

Sorcery MV 9

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

This spell costs 1 less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.

Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Combos with Blasphemous Act

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-11-10

    The total cost to cast Blasphemous Act is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if there are three creatures on the battlefield, including one you can sacrifice to add , the total cost of Blasphemous Act is 5. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost.

  • 2020-11-10

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Blasphemous Act). The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

  • 2020-11-10

    Although players may respond to Blasphemous Act once it's been cast, once it's announced, they can't respond before the cost is calculated and paid.

  • 2020-11-10

    Blasphemous Act's ability can't reduce the total cost to cast the spell below .

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Blasphemous Act, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 71
Games played 25
Win rate 24%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Colors it shows up in

  • Five-Color 11 decks
  • Grixis 9 decks
  • Mono-Red 7 decks
  • Rakdos 6 decks
  • Izzet 4 decks
  • Temur 4 decks
  • Mardu 4 decks
  • Jund 3 decks
  • Gruul 3 decks
  • Boros 3 decks
  • Naya 1 deck

Every version of Blasphemous Act

43 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 Blasphemous Act — 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.