Infernal Tribute
Enchantment
, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $2.57
- EDHREC rank
- #19127
Infernal Tribute gives black a repeatable, instant-speed way to convert any nontoken permanent into a card — the effect is powerful, but sacrificing nonland permanents as the cost means you're trading real resources, not incidental ones. It's a grind-value engine in decks that want to weaponize sacrifice, not a free draw spell.
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 |
Infernal Tribute is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's essentially the full list of formats where it could ever see play. In Commander it finds its best home: 100-card singleton rewards engines that generate multiple permanents to feed the sacrifice cost, and the repeatable draw at three mana activation is meaningful in long games. Legacy and Vintage have strictly more efficient card draw and don't need a three-mana enchantment to do it, so Infernal Tribute is a non-starter there in any competitive context. Oathbreaker follows the Commander logic — slower, value-oriented games where the engine has time to recoup its investment.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.57 cheap tier
At $2.57, Infernal Tribute sits in budget territory for an older black enchantment with a niche but real use case. It's not a staple with wide demand, so the price is unlikely to spike, but it also won't crater — casual interest in sacrifice and draw engines keeps steady low-level demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.