Desperate Ritual

Format legality

Where you can play Desperate Ritual in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (5)

Prices range from $5.27 to $73.38 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Champions of Kamigawa at $5.27.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (5).

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