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Skull of Ramos

Artifact

{T}: Add {B}.
Sacrifice this artifact: Add {B}.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Mercadian Masques
Price
$1.47
EDHREC rank
#19413
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Skull of Ramos card art
Skull of Ramos enters and immediately gives you a black or red mana pip — then sacrifices for a second, making it a two-mana ritual that replaces itself with color fixing on the way out. It's narrow enough that only commanders like Toph, the First Metalbender, who actively reward artifact sacrifice or need specific color access, can justify the slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Skull of Ramos is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card — the sacrifice-for-mana line is too slow and low-impact for Legacy or Vintage, where one-mana rituals with no upside condition see no play. In Commander, Skull of Ramos fills a niche role in artifact-sacrifice synergy decks that want repeatable triggers from permanents entering and leaving the battlefield, and the two-charge structure means it fires twice before it's gone. Outside of decks built to exploit that, a Talisman or even a Darksteel Ingot does more work.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.47 cheap tier

At $1.47, Skull of Ramos sits in the cheap tier — low enough that picking one up for the right deck costs nothing meaningful. It's an old card with a small audience, so the price is stable rather than rising; don't expect it to move in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.