Bone Shards
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-06-18
Once you begin to cast Bone Shards, no player may take actions until you're done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice or make you discard your last card.
- 2021-06-18
You must sacrifice exactly one creature or discard exactly one card to cast this spell; you can't cast it without sacrificing a creature or discarding a card, and you can't sacrifice additional creatures or discard additional cards.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Bone Shards, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
- Orzhov 1 deck
Every version of Bone Shards
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.

The List
- Normal
- $0.17

- Normal
- $0.29
- Foil
- $0.32
- Etched
- $0.37

- Normal
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.37
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bone Shards — 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.