Split the Spoils
Sorcery
Exile up to five target permanent cards from your graveyard and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Piles can be empty.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #20749
Split the Spoils puts four permanents from your graveyard onto the battlefield — opponents sort them into piles and you pick one, so the worst case is still one free permanent with no mana spent. The political cost is real, but at instant speed for two mana, even a bad pile can be a Cultivate-level swing.
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 |
Commander is where Split the Spoils actually lives — four players means three people sorting your piles, which creates enough political noise that you routinely pick up two or three cards worth of value even when opponents try to lowball you. Legacy and Vintage both have access to it, but reanimation in those formats wants precision, not a pile-split negotiation, so it never shows up competitively. Oathbreaker has the same logic as Commander on a smaller scale: two opponents sorting means less dilution of the vote, which makes the card slightly worse but still playable in graveyard-centric builds.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
Split the Spoils is deep bulk at $0.10 — a floor price for a card that sees real Commander play, so don't expect it to climb. Pick it up freely; it won't get cheaper, but it also won't spike.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.