Desperate Ritual
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What it does
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Splice onto Arcane 1 (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Combos with Desperate Ritual
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Mirror Sheen Lava Spike Infinite
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite damage
- Mirror Sheen Dampen Thought Infinite
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mill
- Infinite self-mill
- Izzet Guildmage Lava Spike Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Patron of the Moon Uyo, Silent Prophet Infinite
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Pili-Pala Dual Casting Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Dual Casting Psychic Puppetry Infinite
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite red mana
- Torchling Dual Casting Infinite
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite red mana
- Reiterate Bonus Round Infinite
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
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
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2013-06-07
If all of the spell’s targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- 2013-06-07
A card with a splice ability can’t be spliced onto itself because the spell is on the stack (and not in your hand) when you reveal the cards you want to splice onto it.
- 2013-06-07
You reveal all cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can be spliced only once onto any one spell.
- 2013-06-07
You choose all targets for the spell after revealing cards you want to splice, including any targets required by the text of any of those cards. You may choose a different target for each instance of the word “target” on the resulting spell.
- 2013-06-07
Desperate Ritual isn’t a mana ability. When cast, it (or the spell it’s spliced onto) goes on the stack like any spell and can be responded to.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Desperate Ritual, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spider-Punk | 2 | 0 | — |
| Godo, Bandit Warlord | 1 | 4 | — |
| Aziza, Mage Tower Captain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Edgar Markov | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kratos, God of War | 1 | 0 | — |
| Thor, God of Thunder | 1 | 0 | — |
| Veyran, Voice of Duality | 1 | 0 | — |
| Vivi Ornitier | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 5 decks
- Izzet 2 decks
- Mardu 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
Desperate Ritual price history
The Ultimate Masters #127 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $6.30 | $12.90 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $6.32 | $12.90 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $6.17 | $12.90 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $6.38 | $12.90 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $6.48 | $12.90 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $6.42 | $12.90 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $6.45 | $12.90 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $6.39 | $12.80 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $6.56 | $12.80 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $6.63 | $12.80 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $6.46 | $12.80 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $6.38 | $12.80 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $6.57 | $12.80 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $6.46 | $12.80 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $6.60 | $12.80 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $6.56 | $12.80 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $6.45 | $12.80 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $6.40 | $13.40 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $6.42 | $13.81 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $6.26 | $13.81 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $6.24 | $13.95 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $6.34 | $13.95 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $6.37 | $13.95 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $6.34 | $13.95 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $6.42 | $13.95 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $6.36 | $13.76 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $7.33 | $13.76 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Desperate Ritual
6 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- —
- Foil
- —
Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $20.71
- Foil
- —
Ultimate Masters
- Normal
- $6.30
- Foil
- $12.90
Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might
- Normal
- $6.56
- Normal
- $7.62
- Foil
- $17.02
- Normal
- $6.60
- Foil
- $73.38
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Desperate Ritual. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
