Last Rites
Sorcery
Discard any number of cards. Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a nonland card from it for each card discarded this way. That player discards those cards.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Premium Deck Series: Graveborn
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25776
Last Rites strips every card from an opponent's hand at sorcery speed — the catch is you discard your own hand first, so it only trades favorably when you're empty or running reanimator lines that want cards in the graveyard anyway. In any other context, it's a liability dressed as disruption.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Last Rites sees virtually no play in Legacy or Vintage, where dedicated discard spells like Hymn to Tourach and Thoughtseize do the job without demanding you gut your own hand first. In Pauper, the self-discard cost is steep enough that it never displaced more efficient options at common. Commander is where Last Rites finds its only genuine niche — the combination of a full hand-wipe against one opponent and a self-discard that feeds graveyard strategies makes it a role-player in Meren or Tinybones builds, not a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
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Price data isn't available for Last Rites at the moment, but it's a bulk rare by any reasonable measure given its narrow competitive footprint. Pick it up in a trade binder or a bulk lot — there's no reason to pay a premium for it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.