Desperate Plea
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SetTLE
Collector #185
Released2025-11-21
Rarityrare
ArtistShiyu
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Desperate Plea

RareColour IDMV 2
Sorcery — Lesson
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Choose one or both —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if its power is less than or equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
• Destroy target creature.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2025-11-21Newest 2025-11-21Cheapest priced $0.27 in TLE
Rulings (1)
wotc2 Oct 2025
Because you select targets for Desperate Plea before paying its additional cost, the first mode cannot target and return the creature you sacrificed.
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