Invoke Despair
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2022-02-18
The target opponent doesn't choose whether to sacrifice a creature or not, although they do choose which creature they control to sacrifice.
- 2022-02-18
When you repeat the process, you don't choose a new player. The same player sacrifices each of the three permanents, if able.
- 2022-02-18
You repeat the process for an enchantment and a planeswalker whether the target opponent was able to sacrifice a creature or not.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Invoke Despair, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| M.O.D.O.K. | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 1 deck
Every version of Invoke Despair
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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

- Normal
- $0.35
- Foil
- $0.38

Promo
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos
- Normal
- $0.53
- Foil
- $1.22

Promo
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos
- Foil
- $1.21

Showcase
- Normal
- $0.45
- Foil
- $0.94

Extended Art
- Normal
- $0.76
- Foil
- $0.97

Promo
- Foil
- $0.35
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Invoke Despair — 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.