Desperate Ritual

Mana cost

Mana value2TypeInstant — Arcane Color identity

Red RarityUncommon SetUltimate Masters (UMA) ArtistWayne Reynolds Price€3.05 · foil €6.76 · $5.94

About this card

Desperate Ritual is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 2 (color identity: red). First printed in Champions of Kamigawa (2004); 6 paper printings in total. Role in Commander: ramp. It is one of the 1,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 945). Legal in Commander, Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cheapest printing: €1.99 (Champions of Kamigawa); most expensive: €14.38 (Secret Lair Drop).

Desperate Ritual

Instant — Arcane

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(As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Name in each language

FrançaisRituel de désespoirEnglishDesperate RitualEspañolRitual desesperadoDeutschVerzweifeltes RitualItalianoRituale DisperatoPortuguêsRitual Desesperado日本語捨て身の儀式

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Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperLegalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulNot legal

Rulings

2013-06-07
You reveal all cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can be spliced only once onto any one spell.

2013-06-07
A card with a splice ability can’t be spliced onto itself because the spell is on the stack (and not in your hand) when you reveal the cards you want to splice onto it.

2013-06-07
You choose all targets for the spell after revealing cards you want to splice, including any targets required by the text of any of those cards. You may choose a different target for each instance of the word “target” on the resulting spell.

2013-06-07
If all of the spell’s targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen.

2013-06-07
Desperate Ritual isn’t a mana ability. When cast, it (or the spell it’s spliced onto) goes on the stack like any spell and can be responded to.