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Sacrifice

Instant MV 1

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What it does

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

Add an amount of equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Combos with Sacrifice

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Ashling, the Limitless Greenwarden of Murasa Infinite
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite black mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Saw in Half Mnemonic Wall Infinite
    • Infinite black mana
    • Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Saw in Half Shipwreck Dowser Infinite
    • Infinite black mana
    • Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Saw in Half Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite black mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Saw in Half Scholar of the Ages Infinite
    • Infinite black mana
    • Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Scholar of the Ages Persist Infinite
    • Infinite black mana
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Inalla, Archmage Ritualist Persist Archaeomancer Infinite
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Kairi, the Swirling Sky Saw in Half Spark Double Infinite
    • Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite black mana
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite self-mill
    • Infinite storm count
    • Put all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard and library into your hand
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2004-10-04

    Sacrificing an animated land gives no mana since the converted mana cost was zero.

  • 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.

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

In the 99

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

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — 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
Athreos, God of Passage 1 0 —
Dargo, the Shipwrecker 1 0 —
Tymna the Weaver 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Orzhov 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Sacrifice

11 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 Sacrifice — 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.