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Diabolic Intent

Sorcery MV 2

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2004-10-04

    You must choose a card if there are any in your library.

  • 2013-04-15

    You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.

  • 2013-04-15

    Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

  • 2022-10-14

    You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.

  • 2022-10-14

    Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Diabolic Intent, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 7
Games played 5
Win rate 0%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Sauron, the Dark Lord 1 5 0%
Clavileño, First of the Blessed 1 0 —
Dargo, the Shipwrecker 1 0 —
Marrow-Gnawer 1 0 —
Teval, the Balanced Scale 1 0 —
The Lord of Pain 1 0 —
Tymna the Weaver 1 0 —
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Dimir 1 deck
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Grixis 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Diabolic Intent

10 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 Diabolic Intent — 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.