Pitiless Carnage
Sorcery
Pitiless Carnage
Sorcery
Card Text
Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards.
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 4
- Colors
- Black
- Color Identity
- Black
- EDHREC Rank
- #5,468
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (15)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos (POTJ) | #98s | rare | en | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | $0.51 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #326 | rare | en | Richard Kane Ferguson | $0.70 | $1.09 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos (POTJ) | #98p | rare | en | Richard Kane Ferguson | $0.59 | $0.71 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | en | Richard Kane Ferguson | $0.32 | $0.31 |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | de | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #326 | rare | de | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | es | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #326 | rare | fr | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | fr | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | it | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | ja | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #326 | rare | ja | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | pt | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #326 | rare | zhs | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) | #98 | rare | zhs | Richard Kane Ferguson | β | β |
Official Rulings (8)
If youβre casting a plotted card from exile without paying its mana cost, you canβt choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the plotted card has any mandatory additional costs, those must still be paid to cast the spell.
Plot abilities are written βPlot [cost],β which means βAny time you have priority during your main phase while the stack is empty, you may pay [cost] and exile this card from your hand. It becomes plotted.β
You can choose to sacrifice zero permanents. (That does sound an awful lot like pity, though.)
You sacrifice the permanents as part of the resolution of Pitiless Carnage. It isnβt an additional cost. If Pitiless Carnage is countered or never resolves, you wonβt sacrifice anything.
If a plotted card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
If any abilities trigger as you sacrifice permanents, those abilities wonβt be put onto the stack until after youβve drawn the appropriate number of cards.
You canβt cast a plotted card on the same turn it became plotted. On any future turn, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost during your main phase while the stack is empty.
Exiling a card using its plot ability is a special action. Once you announce youβre taking that action, no other player can respond by trying to remove that card from your hand.
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