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Harmless Offering

Sorcery

Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Eldritch Moon
Price
$0.83
EDHREC rank
#5445
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Harmless Offering card art
Harmless Offering exists to gift Demonic Pact to an opponent after you've already used three of its four modes — a three-mana sorcery that wins the game on the spot in the right shell. Outside that specific line, it's a niche piece with almost no other application, and Blim, Comedic Genius does the same job at the command zone for free.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Blim, Comedic Genius

Blim, Comedic Genius

87.7% of decks · synergy 0.85

Blim, Comedic Genius is the natural home for Harmless Offering — Blim pushes cursed permanents across the table in combat, and Harmless Offering backs him up as a redundant, instant-speed-absent sorcery delivery system for Demonic Pact and other poison gifts.

02
Zedruu the Greathearted

Zedruu the Greathearted

52.6% of decks · synergy 0.51

Zedruu the Greathearted donates permanents for value, and Harmless Offering gives the deck a second gifting spell that costs one fewer mana than Donate — useful when you need to move a Demonic Pact or a detrimental enchantment before your upkeep.

03
Iroh, Tea Master

Iroh, Tea Master

51.3% of decks · synergy 0.51

Iroh, Tea Master rewards giving things to opponents, and Harmless Offering slots in as clean redundancy for the donation engine — another way to hand off a liability and trigger Iroh's political payoffs.

04
Deadpool, Trading Card

Deadpool, Trading Card

32.5% of decks · synergy 0.29

Deadpool, Trading Card's entire game plan revolves around giving opponents cards and permanents they don't want, and Harmless Offering is one of the cheapest ways to move a problem permanent across the table and keep the engine churning.

05
Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

25.0% of decks · synergy 0.24

Zidane, Tantalus Thief cares about opponents gaining things and using your stuff, making Harmless Offering a natural fit for pushing permanents over the table and setting up Zidane's theft-and-sabotage payoffs.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Harmless Offering is legal across competitive formats but sees essentially zero play outside Commander — the Demonic Pact combo requires too many setup pieces and too many turns to assemble in Legacy or Modern, where the game is over before the line resolves. In Pioneer and Standard it's technically playable but competes poorly with faster, more flexible win conditions. Commander is where it actually functions: multiplayer politics give the Demonic Pact line enough runway, and donation commanders provide the shell that makes the card a genuine threat rather than a novelty.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.83 bulk tier

At $0.83, Harmless Offering is bulk — you're not paying a premium for a staple, you're paying almost nothing for a highly specific combo piece. It holds that floor because the demand is narrow and consistent, not because it's poised to break out.

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