Rite of Consumption
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Shadowmoor #76 (common)
- Price
- $5.98 USD
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Rite of Consumption has 2 printings, first in Shadowmoor (2008). EDHREC ranks it #8,003 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yargle and Multani decks (1,854 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Rite of Consumption most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yargle and Multani: 1,854 decks
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 1,076 decks
- Juri, Master of the Revue: 1,056 decks
- Skullbriar, the Walking Grave: 901 decks
- Saruman, the White Hand: 736 decks
- Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder: 554 decks
- Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder: 541 decks
- Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist: 526 decks
Often played with Rite of Consumption
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.
- : You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.