Nahiri's Sacrifice
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature with mana value X.
Nahiri's Sacrifice deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21156
Nahiri's Sacrifice lets you sacrifice a creature to deal damage equal to its power to any target — front-loaded damage stapled to a free sacrifice outlet at instant speed. The catch is the three-mana cost, which keeps it off the auto-include list, but in any deck that wants to convert a dying creature into a removal spell, it earns its slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nahiri's Sacrifice is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees real play in Commander. In older constructed formats, purpose-built sacrifice payoffs and free outlets outclass it on efficiency. Commander is where it fits — sacrifice-matters decks, aristocrats builds, and any shell running high-power creatures that would otherwise just die to removal can convert that board interaction into a targeted damage spell, sometimes closing out a player in the process.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Nahiri's Sacrifice is deep bulk — pick it up out of any common bin without thinking. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely appreciate, so treat it as a role-player you grab for pennies and don't expect price movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.