Desperate Ritual
Instant — Arcane
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Splice onto Arcane (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.)
- CommanderLegal
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperLegal
#943 on EDHREC's list of the most played Commander cards (as of November 9, 2026).
Selling Desperate Ritual?
We pay 50% of a card's market value in cash, or 70% in store credit, for cards worth more than $1. For the cheapest printing of Desperate Ritual, that's about $2.97 cash or $4.16 in credit.
All 6 printings and prices
| Set | # | Released | Nonfoil | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop SLD | 2706 | Oct 2026 | $19.77 | $31.25 |
| Secret Lair Drop SLD | 1984 | Jun 2025 | $20.42 | – |
| Ultimate Masters UMA | 127 | Dec 2018 | $5.94 | $12.85 |
| Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might DDS | 14 | Mar 2017 | $6.35 | – |
| Modern Masters MMA | 110 | Jun 2013 | $7.62 | $17.25 |
| Champions of Kamigawa CHK | 163 | Oct 2004 | $6.89 | $73.38 |
TCGplayer market, near mint, Nov 9, 2026.
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Rulings
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.
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.
You reveal all cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can be spliced only once onto any one spell.
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.
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.
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