Cabal Ritual

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Character Background

Cabal Ritual is a classic one-shot accelerator that best supports combo and storm plans, and can double as a tempo enabler for aggressive or midrange decks that need an extra burst of black mana. As an instant for {1}{B} that normally produces {B}{B}{B}, it lets you collapse turns — cast an early creature and a spell the same turn or fuel a lethal storm chain — while Threshold turns it into a five-mana windfall once you have seven cards in your graveyard, enabling big reanimation or game-ending spells. Build towards it with reliable graveyard-fill: discard outlets and self-mill like Faithless Looting (or Stitcher’s Supplier in grinding shells) and slot in reanimation cards such as Reanimate or Exhume for a clear synergy. Be mindful that graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Leyline of the Void) neuters its upside; plan redundancy or alternative lines. Its low cost and instant speed make it flexible and explosive in turn-based sequences where raw black mana is the difference between a slow game and a decisive combo.

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