Birthing Ritual
Mana Cost:
Type: Enchantment
Oracle Text:
At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: mythic
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Modern Horizons 3
Price ( USD): $8.04
USD: $8.04 · EUR: €10.45
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Character Background
Birthing Ritual is a quintessential value engine for green decks that want to turn modest bodies into escalating board presence, especially midrange and combo-leaning shells. Each end step becomes a small evolution ritual: if you’ve kept a creature on the battlefield, you dig seven deep, then convert the weakest link into something bigger, with the sacrificed creature’s mana value setting the ceiling. That means token makers, recursive creatures, and expendable utility creatures are ideal fuel, since a one-drop can become a two-drop, then a three-drop, and so on. It pairs particularly well with cards that create extra bodies or return from the graveyard, letting you cash in chump blockers or value creatures without falling behind. In practice, it rewards careful curve design and creature density, and it’s strongest in a grindy value plan where every end step threatens a free upgrade.
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