Cabal Therapy
Sorcery
Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Friday Night Magic 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15085
Cabal Therapy strips the most dangerous card from an opponent's hand for a single black mana — and the flashback lets you do it again for a creature sacrifice. The information problem (naming blind) is real, but any deck that generates tokens or recurs creatures turns that into a nonfactor.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Legacy is where Cabal Therapy earns its reputation: Storm and Reanimator shells cast it turn one off a fetch-and-crack, naming the disruption piece they already saw with a cantrip, then flash it back off a Dread Return target or Ichorid trigger for free. In Vintage the effect is similarly brutal but competes with Mental Misstep and harder lock pieces. Commander is the format where it's most context-dependent — hand disruption is diluted across four players, so Cabal Therapy is at its best when you can combo off the same turn you cast it, using a sacrifice outlet and a creature you were spending anyway to strip the one player holding countermagic.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Cabal Therapy right now — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate, as it has historically seen meaningful swings tied to Legacy demand. Given its narrow competitive home and Commander adoption that's more niche than universal, it tends to be priced around its Legacy playability rather than casual demand.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.