Call for Blood
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Betrayers of KamigawaBOK · #63
- Card type
- Instant — Arcane
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.05 € · ★ 0.29 € · 0.06 $ · ★ 0.20 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Black
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- 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
- Carl Critchlow
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-02-04
Rulings
Uses last known information for the sacrificed creature’s power.
You may sacrifice the creature chosen as the target for Call for Blood (if you control it) when you pay the additional cost for the spell. If you do, Call for Blood doesn’t resolve.
Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
