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Gideon's Sacrifice

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What it does

Choose a creature or planeswalker you control. All damage that would be dealt this turn to you and permanents you control is dealt to the chosen permanent instead (if it's still on the battlefield).

Combos with Gideon's Sacrifice

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Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-05-03

    If you control no creatures or planeswalkers as Gideon's Sacrifice resolves, nothing happens. The damage redirection effect won't be able to be applied to any damage events.

  • 2019-05-03

    More damage can be redirected to the chosen creature than it has toughness or to the chosen planeswalker than it has loyalty, as long as that damage is all dealt at once (like combat damage is) or is all dealt while a single spell or ability is resolving.

  • 2019-05-03

    If the chosen creature or planeswalker isn't on the battlefield or isn't a creature or planeswalker at the time damage would be dealt, the damage won't be redirected.

  • 2019-05-03

    Gideon's Sacrifice doesn't change the source of the damage or whether the damage is combat damage.

  • 2019-05-03

    Gideon's Sacrifice has no effect on damage already dealt earlier in the turn.

  • 2019-05-03

    If you cast more than one Gideon's Sacrifice in one turn, all damage that would be dealt at once to you and/or permanents you control is dealt to one of the chosen permanents of your choice. It's not dealt to all of them, and you can't split the damage between them. The next time damage would be dealt to you, you may choose a different one of those permanents to be dealt that damage.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Gideon's Sacrifice, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is 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
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 1 0 —
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-White 1 deck
  • Selesnya 1 deck

Every version of Gideon's Sacrifice

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 publishes none for some of them.

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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.