Pyrrhic Strike
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed #30 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.18 USD
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 2. (You may put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
Choose one. If this spell's additional cost was paid, choose both instead.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or greater.
Pyrrhic Strike has 1 printing, first in Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026). EDHREC ranks it #17,114 among Commander cards. It appears most in Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind decks (390 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Pyrrhic Strike most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind: 390 decks
- Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom // Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield: 178 decks
- Momo, Playful Pet: 16 decks
- Rosie Cotton of South Lane: 5 decks
- Fortune, Loyal Steed: 4 decks
- Aya of Alexandria: 3 decks
- Sokka, Lateral Strategist: 3 decks
- Thalia, the Survivor: 2 decks
Often played with Pyrrhic Strike
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Once you've announced that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to destroy or otherwise remove your creatures to stop you from blighting as part of paying the cost of that spell or ability.
- : If a creature that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, effects that refer to the counters on that creature when it died will see all of those +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.
- : If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. For example, if a creature has three +1/+1 counters on it and two -1/-1 counters are put on it, state-based actions will remove two of each of those kinds of counters, leaving the creature with just one +1/+1 counter.
- : All of the -1/-1 counters must be put on a single creature. You can't choose to split them up between multiple creatures.
- : If you can't place -1/-1 counters on any creatures you control (probably because you control no creatures), you can't choose to blight.
- : The creature you choose to put -1/-1 counters on doesn't have to have enough toughness to survive the process. For example, if you blight 2, you can choose to put the counters on a 1/1 creature you control.