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Desperate Ritual 
Oracle Text
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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
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Desperate Ritual, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 13 | 4 | 283 | 4 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 33 | 1 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Pauper | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Details
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 1984
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Desperate Ritual
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
- 1 Headliner Scarlett
- 1 Bloodthirsty Adversary
- 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
- 1 Party Thrasher
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
- 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- 1 Magus of the Moon
- 1 Simian Spirit Guide
- 1 Synth Eradicator
- 1 Tersa Lightshatter
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Untimely Malfunction
- 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
- 1 Flare of Duplication
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Pyrokinesis
- 1 Burst Lightning
- 1 Galvanic Blast
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Play with Fire
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Spikefield Hazard
- 1 Wild Slash
- 1 Gut Shot
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (38)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Behold the Beyond
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (18)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (25)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Behold the Beyond
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (17)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (25)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Behold the Beyond
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (17)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (16)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Sorceries (16)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
