Immoral Bargain
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice X creatures.
Destroy X target nonland permanents.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $1.26
- EDHREC rank
- #10518
Immoral Bargain puts two creatures from any graveyard onto the battlefield under your control — the impact is immediate and often game-ending in life-gain shells where a Dina, Essence Brewer trigger off each creature entering can close out the table. The cost is paying half your life total, which is steep but irrelevant when you're winning on the spot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Dina, Essence Brewer
Dina, Essence Brewer turns Immoral Bargain into a kill condition: returning two high-power creatures triggers Dina's life-drain ability twice, often in the same turn you paid half your life to cast it.
Blech, Loafing Pest
Blech, Loafing Pest cares about life payment as a resource rather than a penalty, making the steep self-damage from Immoral Bargain synergistic rather than punishing.
Savra, Queen of the Golgari
Savra, Queen of the Golgari runs sacrifice loops that fill graveyards fast, and Immoral Bargain converts that graveyard depth into immediate board presence while triggering Savra's drain effects on the way back.
Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
Prossh, Skyraider of Kher generates a wide sacrifice engine that feeds graveyards deep enough to make Immoral Bargain a late-game alpha strike, pulling back two high-value creatures when the table least expects it.
Beledros Witherbloom
Beledros Witherbloom's life-payment theme makes the cost of Immoral Bargain feel like fuel rather than drawback, and recovering two large threats aligns cleanly with the deck's grind-and-drain game plan.
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 |
Immoral Bargain is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it actually sees play — three-player politics and slower clocks give the card room to breathe, and graveyard-filling is trivially easy in 100-card singleton. In Legacy and Vintage the card is technically castable but has no meaningful presence; paying half your life in a 20-life format with access to faster reanimation is a losing proposition. Oathbreaker is the only other realistic home, particularly in life-gain or graveyard signatures where the life cost can be managed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.26 cheap tier
At $1.26, Immoral Bargain sits in the impulse-buy tier — cheap enough to throw into any Golgari graveyard build without deliberation. That price reflects real casual demand without spiking, and given its niche but dedicated audience in life-gain Commander shells, it's unlikely to drop further.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dina, Essence Brewer
- Blech, Loafing Pest
- Savra, Queen of the Golgari
- Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
- Beledros Witherbloom
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.