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Death Pit Offering

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, sacrifice all creatures you control.
Creatures you control get +2/+2.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Eighth Edition
Price
$0.44
EDHREC rank
#22672
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Death Pit Offering card art
Death Pit Offering hands every creature you control +2/+2 and deathtouch the moment it resolves — a combat-ending swing that costs you your whole board to enchant. The sacrifice clause is the price of admission, and unlike Zombie Infestation, which converts cards to bodies, this converts bodies to a static buff, so you need creatures already on the table to get full value.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Death Pit Offering does its best work, slotting into sacrifice-matters decks that can rebuild a board quickly or simply don't care about losing creatures they were planning to sac anyway. The five-mana enchantment is too slow and fragile for Legacy and Vintage, where the formats' density of interaction means it rarely survives long enough to matter. Modern has faster, more resilient payoffs for the same archetype, so Death Pit Offering sees essentially no play there either. In Oathbreaker the lower game count and faster pace make the setup cost even steeper.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.44 bulk tier

At $0.44, Death Pit Offering sits firmly in bulk territory, which is about right for a card with narrow applications and real setup demands. It's unlikely to climb without a high-profile reprint or a breakout Commander deck pushing the strategy into the spotlight.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.