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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
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (20)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (20)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (32)
- 1 Grapeshot
- 1 Reckless Impulse
- 1 Wrenn's Resolve
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Merchant Scroll
- 1 See the Truth
- 1 Galvanic Relay
- 1 Jeska's Will
- 1 Wheel of Fortune
- 1 Lock and Load
- 1 Solve the Equation
- 1 Stock Up
- 1 Windfall
- 1 Empty the Warrens
- 1 Mizzix's Mastery
- 1 Past in Flames
- 1 Lórien Revealed
- 1 Elemental Eruption
- 1 Mind's Desire
- 1 Time Spiral
- 1 Chain Lightning
- 1 Faithless Looting
- 1 Flame Slash
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Rite of Flame
- 1 Strike It Rich
- 1 Personal Tutor
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Serum Visions
- 1 Sleight of Hand
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (24)
- 1 Pact of Negation
- 1 Desperate Ritual
- 1 Pyretic Ritual
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Remand
- 1 Snap
- 1 Flame of Anor
- 1 Prismari Command
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Seething Song
- 1 Valakut Awakening
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Silundi Vision
- 1 Turnabout
- 1 Mine Collapse
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Spikefield Hazard
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Opt
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (32)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Cascade Bluffs
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 2 Island
- 1 Island
- 2 Island
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 2 Mountain
- 2 Mountain
- 2 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverglide Pathway
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Spirebluff Canal
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (20)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
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: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (18)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (26)
- 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 Jeska's Will
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Elemental Eruption
- 1 Behold the Beyond
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
- 1 Strike It Rich
Instants (15)
Artifacts (9)
Lands (35)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 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
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
