Strategic Betrayal
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Secret Lair Promo #56 (rare)
Target opponent exiles a creature they control and their graveyard.
Strategic Betrayal has 4 printings, first in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025). EDHREC ranks it #10,943 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ketramose, the New Dawn decks (795 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Strategic Betrayal most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ketramose, the New Dawn: 795 decks
- Umbris, Fear Manifest: 691 decks
- Vadmir, New Blood: 8 decks
- Myojin of Night's Reach: 2 decks
- Grim Reaper, Lethal Legionnaire: 1 decks
- Titania, Rugged Rumbler: 1 decks
- Grendel, Spawn of Knull: 1 decks
- Viper, Cruel Conspirator: 1 decks
Often played with Strategic Betrayal
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The opponent chooses which creature to exile as Strategic Betrayal resolves. If they don’t control any creatures at that time, they simply exile their graveyard.