Choice of Damnations
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery — Arcane
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa #62 (rare)
- Price
- $23.08 USD
Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents of their choice.
Choice of Damnations has 1 printing, first in Saviors of Kamigawa (2005). EDHREC ranks it #12,491 among Commander cards. It appears most in Magar of the Magic Strings decks (719 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Choice of Damnations most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Magar of the Magic Strings: 719 decks
- The Valeyard: 469 decks
- Zevlor, Elturel Exile: 446 decks
- The Celestial Toymaker: 378 decks
- Infernal Kirin: 106 decks
- Gollum, Scheming Guide: 100 decks
- Kyoki, Sanity's Eclipse: 50 decks
- Miss Highwater: 28 decks
Often played with Choice of Damnations
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : After the opponent chooses a number, Choice of Damnations’ controller may choose to make that opponent either lose that much life or make that opponent sacrifice permanents.
- : If the opponent must sacrifice all but a number of permanents, that opponent chooses that many permanents and then sacrifices the rest. If the number chosen is greater than the number of permanents the opponent controls, the player sacrifices nothing.