Cut // Ribbons
Cut // Ribbons: Sorcery, Amonkhet. Cut deals 4 damage to target creature. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black and red (BR)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Amonkhet (AKH)
- Released
- 2017-04-28
- Collector number
- 223
- Artist
- Raymond Swanland
- Keywords
- Aftermath
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About Cut // Ribbons
Cut // Ribbons is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black and red sorcery from Amonkhet (AKH), an expansion set released in April 2017. It is collector number 223 in that set, with art by Raymond Swanland. It costs {1}{R} (one generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is black and red. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Amonkhet (2017) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.56 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Cut deals 4 damage to target creature.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.56 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Cut // Ribbons by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Cut // Ribbons
Cut // Ribbons has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #367 | Rare | 2021 |
| The List (PLST) #AKH-223 | Rare | 2020 |
| Amonkhet Remastered (AKR) #231 | Rare | 2020 |
| Amonkhet Promos (PAKH) #223s | Rare | 2017 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Cut // Ribbons, newest first.
- Once you've started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation.
- Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice.
- While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its mana value is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with mana value 2 from your hand, you can't cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards.
- Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both.
- If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you'll exile the card if it would leave the stack.
- All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you're casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead.
- If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can't cast the half with aftermath.
- A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
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