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◇ Catalog #224

Plumb the Forbidden

soc·#224·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Andrey Kuzinskiy

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Apr '26

3 mo ago

Value

$0.32+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.33 · low $0.30

NM$0.32

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.30–$0.34modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.35low $0.02range 1650.0%n 50

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #1,164 · Common include

Variants

Nonfoil$0.32

Gameplay

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Strixhaven forbade all magic from the Blood Age, so that is where Extus began his research.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 2

2021-04-16wotc

If you sacrifice a creature with a magecraft ability to cast Plumb the Forbidden, that creature's ability will not trigger.

2021-04-16wotc

If you copy Plumb the Forbidden multiple times, each magecraft ability of a creature you control will trigger that many times.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.32. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $0.35 across 50 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SOC — the lineup includes 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 #224 of *Secrets of Strixhaven Commander*, the set that shipped alongside the April 2026 Secrets of Strixhaven Commander release.

Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B} (2 converted).

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

EDHrec ranks this card #1,164 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy. Rarix catalogs 247 other cards credited to this artist.