Sadistic Sacrament
Sorcery
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles. If this spell was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.91
- EDHREC rank
- #17296
Sadistic Sacrament lets you surgically remove three specific cards from an opponent's library for three mana — or fifteen cards for seven, which is less surgical and more a lobotomy. The cost is that it does nothing to the board state and wins you no friends at the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sadistic Sacrament lives almost entirely in Commander, where targeting one player's library is a meaningful threat and the kicker cost of seven mana is reachable in the late game. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — those formats end too fast for a sorcery-speed library surgical to matter when Surgical Extraction and Extirpate exist at instant speed and far lower cost. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where targeting a specific opponent's combo pieces could be relevant, but the format is niche enough that it rarely comes up in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.91 bulk tier
At $0.91, Sadistic Sacrament sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough that the barrier to include it is purely about whether it fits your game plan. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile combo deck drives a spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.