Costly Plunder
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · 0.26 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- 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
- Ben Maier
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
No lock of iron is a match for Vraska's will of stone.
Rulings
You can't cast Costly Plunder without sacrificing a permanent, and you can't sacrifice additional permanents.
You can't sacrifice an artifact to generate mana to pay towards Costly Plunder's cost and also to pay its additional cost.