Birthing Ritual
Enchantment
At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Illustrated by Drew Tucker · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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Birthing Ritual's ability checks if you control a creature at the beginning of your end step. If you don't, the ability won't trigger.
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If Birthing Ritual's ability does trigger but you control no creatures when it tries to resolve, the ability will do nothing.
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Use the mana value of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine the value of X.
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If one of the revealed creature cards has
in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining that card's mana value.
Archetypes that play this card
Legacy
- Death and Taxes (Yorion) - Black/White 2.5% of lists
Modern
- 5c Midrange 100.0% of lists
- Bant Midrange 100.0% of lists
- Sam Combo 100.0% of lists
Show 2 more Modern archetypes
- Boros Energy 4.6% of lists
- Other 1.6% of lists