Grisly Ritual
Grisly Ritual: Sorcery, Innistrad: Crimson Vow. Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create two Blood tokens. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}{B}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)
- Released
- 2021-11-19
- Collector number
- 116
- Artist
- Anastasia Ovchinnikova
- Commander rank
- 20,046 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Grisly Ritual
Grisly Ritual is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common black sorcery from Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW), an expansion set released in November 2021. It is collector number 116 in that set, with art by Anastasia Ovchinnikova. It costs {5}{B} (five generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. Its colour identity is black. 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
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create two Blood tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
"You can always tell who's new from the screaming." -Tinua, Skirsdag cultist
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 Grisly Ritual 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 Grisly Ritual
Grisly Ritual 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) #383 | Common | 2022 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Grisly Ritual, newest first.
- Some spells that instruct you to create a Blood token require targets. You can't cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won't resolve and you won't create any Blood tokens. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you'll do as much as possible, including creating Blood tokens.
- 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.
- If an effect refers to a Blood token, it means any artifact token with the subtype Blood, even if it has gained other subtypes.
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