Village Rites
Innistrad Remastered 137 • common
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Collector number
- 137
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Bud Cook
- Market price
- $1.07
What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
"You were so eager to take and consume. Yet when asked to give, you refuse?"
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Village Rites was originally introduced in the Core Set 2021 as a common black instant. Its design focuses on the core themes of the black color identity in Magic: The Gathering, specifically the sacrifice mechanic that rewards players for offloading their own creatures for card advantage. The card serves as a staple utility spell that reflects the grim, pragmatic nature of its color, allowing for strategic resource management during tense gameplay.
For the Innistrad Remastered set, the card was reprinted to fit the gothic horror aesthetic that defines the plane of Innistrad. The artwork reinforces the thematic focus on rural, occult practices within the setting, illustrating the dark pacts often made by villagers in the face of the horrors plaguing their home. Its inclusion in this set serves to bridge the mechanical needs of the format with the established atmospheric lore of the plane.
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