MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #97967

Invoke Despair

DIGITAL ONLY

prm·#97967·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Donato Giancola

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jul '22

4 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #8,642 · Niche pick

Variants

Foil$1.11

Nonfoil$1.11

Gameplay

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

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Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2022-02-18wotc

The target opponent doesn't choose whether to sacrifice a creature or not, although they do choose which creature they control to sacrifice.

2022-02-18wotc

When you repeat the process, you don't choose a new player. The same player sacrifices each of the three permanents, if able.

2022-02-18wotc

You repeat the process for an enchantment and a planeswalker whether the target opponent was able to sacrifice a creature or not.

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from PRM — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #97967 of *Magic Online Promos*, the promotional run that shipped alongside the July 2022 Magic Online release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B}{B}{B} (5 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #8,642 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Donato Giancola. Rarix catalogs 770 other cards credited to this artist.