1 – 20 of 309 cards where the text includes “sacrifice a creature”
Abhorrent Overlord {5}{B}{B}
Creature — Demon
Flying
When Abhorrent Overlord enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
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Accursed Centaur {B}
Creature — Zombie Centaur
When Accursed Centaur enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.
“The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.”
—Kamahl, druid acolyte
Illustrated by Jerry Tiritilli
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Altar of Bone {G}{W}
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Illustrated by Melissa A. Benson
Part of the Reserved List
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Altar of Dementia {2}
Artifact
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature’s power.
“It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness.”
—Volrath
Illustrated by Brom
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Altar's Reap {1}{B}
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
“Don’t worry, your death will be as informative as possible.”
—Gorghul, augur of skulls
Illustrated by Donato Giancola
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
A-Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes {3}{R}{G}
Legendary Planeswalker — Minsc
When Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, if you don’t control a creature named Boo, create Boo, a legendary 1/1 red Hamster creature token with trample and haste.
+1: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature with trample or haste.
−2: Sacrifice a creature. When you do, Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes deals X damage to any target, where X is that creature’s power. If the sacrificed creature was a Hamster, draw X cards.
Illustrated by Andreas Zafiratos
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Not Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Not Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Animal Boneyard {2}{W}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
Enchanted land has “{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature’s toughness.”
“The animal spirits are the Ancestor’s grandchildren. Remember them.”
—Mystic elder
Illustrated by Edward P. Beard, Jr.
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Arguel's Blood Fast {1}{B}
Legendary Enchantment
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel’s Blood Fast.
Arguel’s vision led him into the jungles of Ixalan …
Temple of Aclazotz
Legendary Land
(Transforms from Arguel’s Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature’s toughness.
… to the lost temple of a bat-god of night, eternal enemy to the Threefold Sun.
Illustrated by Daarken
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Ashnod's Altar {3}
Artifact
Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.
“If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back.”
—Ashnod, to Tawnos
Illustrated by Greg Staples
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Attrition {1}{B}{B}
Enchantment
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
“I will trade life for life with the insurgents. Our resources, unlike theirs, are limitless.”
—Davvol, Evincar of Rath
Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Barrage of Expendables {R}
Enchantment
{R}, Sacrifice a creature: Barrage of Expendables deals 1 damage to any target.
Goblin generals don’t distinguish between troops and ammunition.
Illustrated by Trevor Claxton
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Bayou Groff {1}{G}
Creature — Plant Dog
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}.
“Groffs are great for tracking pests through the muck, but securing the pests before the groff devours them is a dicey endeavor.”
—Lisette, Witherbloom dean
Illustrated by Ilse Gort
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Birthing Pod {3}{G/P}
Artifact
({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
{1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature’s mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Watermark: Phyrexian
Illustrated by Daarken
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Banned
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Birthing Ritual {1}{G}
Enchantment
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.
Illustrated by Drew Tucker
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Black Carriage {3}{B}{B}
Creature — Horse
Trample
Black Carriage doesn’t untap during your untap step.
Sacrifice a creature: Untap Black Carriage. Activate only during your upkeep.
“The Baron’s drivers are also driven.”
—Chandler
Illustrated by David A. Cherry
Part of the Reserved List
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Blasting Station {3}
Artifact
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.
Illustrated by Stephen Tappin
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Blighted Shaman {1}{B}
Creature — Human Cleric Shaman
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Illustrated by Ian Miller
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Blood Aspirant {1}{R}
Creature — Satyr Berserker
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Blood Aspirant.
{1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: Blood Aspirant deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature can’t block this turn.
It’s a small step from revel to bloodbath.
Illustrated by Tyler Walpole
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Blood Divination {3}{B}
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw three cards.
Predicting the future is a messy business.
Illustrated by Filip Burburan
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Bloodflow Connoisseur {2}{B}
Creature — Vampire
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodflow Connoisseur.
“Death not for survival but for vanity and pleasure? This is the decadence I sought to curb.”
—Sorin Markov
Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal