Ceremonial Knife
Ceremonial Knife: Artifact - Equipment, Innistrad: Crimson Vow. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Artifact - Equipment
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)
- Released
- 2021-11-19
- Collector number
- 254
- Artist
- Antonio José Manzanedo
- Commander rank
- 11,405 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Equip
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About Ceremonial Knife
Ceremonial Knife is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common colourless artifact from Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW), an expansion set released in November 2021. It is collector number 254 in that set, with art by Antonio José Manzanedo. It costs {1} (one generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Innistrad: Crimson Vow (2021) to Innistrad: Double Feature (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.18 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, create a Blood token." (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.18 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Ceremonial Knife by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Ceremonial Knife
Ceremonial Knife has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL) #521 | Common | 2022 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Ceremonial Knife, newest first.
- If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
- You can't sacrifice a Blood token to pay multiple costs.
- Some triggered abilities trigger "whenever you sacrifice a Blood token." These abilities trigger regardless of why you sacrificed that Blood token.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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