Desperate Ritual
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ultimate MastersUMA · #127
- Card type
- Instant — Arcane
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 2.69 € · ★ 6.57 € · 6.42 $ · ★ 13.81 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Add . 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.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Wayne Reynolds
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2018-12-07
Rulings
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.
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.
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.
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.
You reveal all cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can be spliced only once onto any one spell.
