Righteous Blow
Instant
Righteous Blow deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #26240
Righteous Blow deals 1 damage to a tapped creature — a conditional removal spell that only fires after combat and only hits the weakest bodies. It's outclassed by nearly every other white instant at one mana, and there's no format where it earns a 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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Righteous Blow is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, one-for-one removal needs to answer threats across three opponents, and a sorcery-speed constraint disguised as an instant — only useful on tapped creatures — fails that bar badly. Pauper is the one format where white one-drops get scrutinized most carefully, and even there Righteous Blow loses to Journey to Nowhere, Prismatic Strands, or any number of commons with broader application. In eternal formats like Legacy and Vintage, the card simply doesn't exist competitively.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Righteous Blow sits firmly in bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box and goes home in a draft chaff pile. That price reflects the demand accurately; there's no sleeper value here, and it won't move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.