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Village Rites
Price$0.32 – $3.47
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Village Rites

{B}

Instant

LegalCard DrawRank #194

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

Draw two cards.

Why is this card good?

Village Rites is one of the best one-mana draw spells in black, full stop. The instant speed and cheap cost make it incredibly flexible: you draw two cards for {B} whenever a creature is about to die, gets exiled, or you just need gas. The real magic is turning liabilities into value. Respond to targeted removal or a board wipe by sacrificing the doomed creature — you "save" it as cards. It also enables death triggers, so it's premium glue in aristocrats decks (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat), token strategies with expendable bodies, and reanimator lists that want creatures in the yard anyway. Combo decks love it too as a cheap, instant-speed engine to dig toward pieces while feeding a sac outlet. When to skip it: decks light on creatures or that can't profitably part with them — heavy artifact, enchantment, or spellslinger builds. If you don't have a steady stream of fodder, this is just a worse Sign in Blood. Otherwise, near-auto-include in black.

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Printings (11)

sldSecret Lair Drop · #2248R—Buy
inrInnistrad Remastered · #392C$1.02Buy
inrInnistrad Remastered · #137C$0.96Buy
j25Foundations Jumpstart · #508C$0.32Buy
lccThe Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander · #212C$0.34Buy
j22Jumpstart 2022 · #486C$0.34Buy
gn3Game Night: Free-for-All · #64C$0.39Buy
staStrixhaven Mystical Archive · #35U$0.45Buy
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staStrixhaven Mystical Archive · #98U$3.47Buy
khmKaldheim · #117C$0.36Buy
m21Core Set 2021 · #126C$0.32Buy

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Rulings (1)

  • 2021-02-05

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

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