Psionic Ritual
Sorcery
Replicate—Tap an untapped Horror you control. (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Exile Psionic Ritual.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #9581
Psionic Ritual mills three cards from each opponent and hands you one from each of their graveyards — immediate card advantage stapled to graveyard disruption for five mana. It's not cheap, but in decks that want opponent libraries in the bin, the cost is the point.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Captain N'ghathrod
Captain N'ghathrod triggers on each combat damage instance against a player, so every milled card is a potential steal — Psionic Ritual front-loads that pipeline by dumping nine cards across three opponents' graveyards and putting the best three directly into your hand before combat even starts.
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 |
Psionic Ritual is a Commander card through and through — the effect scales with the number of opponents, and at three targets it generates three stolen cards plus nine milled, which is a real return on five mana in a multiplayer pod. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant; five-mana sorceries that don't win the game on the spot don't make those formats' cut. Oathbreaker is the one other format where the three-opponent math might occasionally apply, but the card's natural home is a 100-card graveyard deck at a four-player table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Psionic Ritual sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire and zero barrier to testing. Bulk rares with narrow, commander-specific appeal tend to stay flat, so don't expect movement unless mill becomes a breakout archetype.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.