Choice of Damnations
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Saviors of KamigawaSOK · #62
- Card type
- Sorcery — Arcane
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 8.86 € · ★ 20.11 € · 22.59 $ · ★ 40.00 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents of their choice.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Greg Hildebrandt
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-06-03
Flavour text
"Life is a series of choices between bad and worse." —Toshiro Umezawa
Rulings
After the opponent chooses a number, Choice of Damnations’ controller may choose to make that opponent either lose that much life or make that opponent sacrifice permanents.
If the opponent must sacrifice all but a number of permanents, that opponent chooses that many permanents and then sacrifices the rest. If the number chosen is greater than the number of permanents the opponent controls, the player sacrifices nothing.