Acceptable Losses
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card at random.
Acceptable Losses deals 5 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #28400
Acceptable Losses destroys any target creature for three mana at instant speed — the catch is discarding a card at random. That random discard is a real cost, not a negligible one, and it keeps this out of most optimized lists in favor of cleaner removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Acceptable Losses sits in the long tail of red removal — playable in budget builds or decks that actively want cards in the graveyard, but outclassed by Chaos Warp and Feed the Swarm at similar price points. Pauper is where Acceptable Losses has the most legitimate case, since the removal suite at common is thinner and the random discard hurts less in a format built around card-efficient threats. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but would never touch it — the competition is simply too deep. It's a fine draft common that rarely makes the cut in constructed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Acceptable Losses is deep bulk — a card you pull from a common box rather than buy. That price is stable in the sense that there's no ceiling to fall from; it will stay bulk indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.