Go for Blood
Sorcery
Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #13345
Go for Blood trades the weakest creature you control in combat and replaces itself with a card draw — a clean one-mana package when you're already attacking. It's narrow enough that only fighting-and-combat-trigger decks want it, but in those shells it earns its slot over basically every other one-drop cantrip.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Neyith of the Dire Hunt
Neyith of the Dire Hunt triggers on forced fights and rewards you for having your biggest creature fight, making Go for Blood a one-mana way to draw two cards while clearing a blocker — the synergy is direct and the cost is negligible.
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, Go for Blood belongs to a narrow slice of decks — Neyith of the Dire Hunt being the clearest example — where forcing combat and generating card advantage overlap cleanly. Outside that niche, most Commander decks have better ways to spend one mana and better ways to draw. In Pauper, it competes with other cheap cantrips and sees almost no play; the fight rider rarely comes free enough to matter. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have the card legal but no realistic home — one-mana conditional draw doesn't clear the bar in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Go for Blood is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if the deck wants it. Bulk commons don't hold or lose value in any meaningful sense; just pick it up and move on.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.