Dark Ritual

Instant

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Combos

• Dark Ritual + Isochron Scepter + Voltaic Key
• Dark Ritual + Underworld Breach

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

doc_frank_18 on Maralen of the Mornsong

1 week ago

Where's Dark Ritual, Crypt Ghast, Dark Confidant, Strionic Resonator and Wayfarer's Bauble?

NV_1980 on Drink Death Like Wine

1 week ago

Excellent deck Vessiliana! Would Dark Ritual make sense in your deck? The prospect of a turn 1 Ayara seems rather interesting to me :) Another card that could be really nice in here is The Darkness Crystal. Cheapens practically all you cast, is a lovely bit of permanent graveyard hate AND allows you to steal. Also, Whip of Erebos seems great in this kind of mono-black deck. Ensures that any valuable creatures you lose can be reused at least once and the lifegain potential is insane.

theNeroTurtle on Feast of Greed

2 weeks ago

I give it a 1+

as for suggestions, I feel like you pretty well have it tuned up well. All I could think of was maybe a little ramp.

Dark Ritual

Tinder Wall

Stuff like that...

Balaam__ on Dimir... uh.. Ramp Mill..

3 weeks ago

In the beginning you discuss the need to ramp out quickly to make good use of an early Balustrade Spy. I notice there’s no Dark Ritual here, even though you’re in the right color(s) for it. I can’t decide if it’s for price reasons (the cheapest version costs less than Darkness but it isn’t as intrinsic to the gameplan as that card is) or you just don’t need to run it that badly, that what you have here works well enough already. Thoughts?

Balaam__ on What Is Dead May Never Die

1 month ago

I think there’s a fork of this deck where you run that Dark Ritual (4x, actually) you’ve got in the sideboard. There’s more than enough zombies to capitalize on Gempalm Polluter/Gary here already, so opting for a faster hand-to-table path due to more available mana would be the direction I’d lean.

Murrow on Extra Value Meal

1 month ago

Haha yeah capwner, Dark Ritual would be sick af, turn one and 9 power haha. And Accursed Marauder would go pretty hard in this too hmmm...

NV_1980 on Demon Sect

1 month ago

So I play-tested this a dozen times or so, and there's a bit of an issue with this deck. In only 1 of these attempts, it took me 5 turns to get 6 Apostles on the field. The rest all took longer. If you want to speed things up, there's a few ways in which you can do that:

1. Use ramp spells like Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak to pump out black mana more quickly. Also will make you slightly less dependent on the Apostles (or these will help you churn out Apostles much quicker). I can't recommend Songs of the Damned enough for this deck, as after you've sacced 6 Apostles to tutor for something, these will become fuel for the casting of other high-end spells.
2. Use draw opportunity that won't require you to sacrifice creatures for it. That will only slow down your Apostle count. Instead of the current draw spells, I'd go for options like Sign in Blood, Read the Bones, Night's Whisper. Possibly also add Underworld Connections (budget) or Black Market Connections (non-budget).

Hope it turns out.

Zigen on Westvale Atlas

1 month ago

The crazy thing is when this card first came out I went to local game store and bought everyone of them they had. It is now one of my staples in 90% of the decks I have made. along the lines of Crypt Ghast Dark Ritual Pestilence Demon and Pestilence