Deadly Visit
Sorcery
Destroy target creature.
Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #22822
Deadly Visit destroys a creature and surveys — digging one card deeper — for five mana at sorcery speed. That rate is too slow for most competitive tables, but the surveil stapling onto unconditional removal makes it a functional budget inclusion in graveyard and self-mill shells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Deadly Visit sits at the low end of acceptable removal — five mana at sorcery speed is a real cost, but unconditional destroy plus surveil 2 does two jobs at once for decks that care about graveyard density. In Pauper, where the card is legal, the unconditional clause is genuinely rare at common, and the surveil tacks on meaningful selection for a format that grinds. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have access to far more efficient removal, so Deadly Visit has no realistic role there. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: fine in a self-mill or graveyard-value build, outclassed elsewhere.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Deadly Visit is pure bulk — acquire it as a throw-in or from a common box, not as a deliberate purchase. Price stability is essentially guaranteed in one direction: it won't drop further, but there's no pressure driving it up either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.