Dead Drop
Click the card to switch sides
Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Khans of TarkirKTK · #67
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.11 € · ★ 0.32 € · 0.19 $ · ★ 0.60 $
- Mana value
- 10
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .) Target player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Greg Staples
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2014-09-26
Flavour text
Got a diving lesson —Sultai expression meaning "was fed to the crocodiles"
Rulings
Dead Drop doesn't target any creature. The target player could sacrifice a creature with hexproof, for example.
The target player chooses which creatures they will sacrifice as Dead Drop resolves. If the player controls only one creature at that time, they will sacrifice it.
Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.