Desperate Ritual Price
7 printings · 6 sets · first printed 2004
Desperate Ritual has been printed 7 times across 6 sets, first in 2004 and most recently in 2026. Right now the cheapest printing is Champions of Kamigawa #163 at $5.23, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #1984 at $21.05 — about 4× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $6.57. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 7x, including dedicated reprint sets like Ultimate Masters, Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might.
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Every Desperate Ritual Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champions of Kamigawa #163 (C) Cheapest | 2004 | $5.23 | $3.10 |
| Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might #14 (U) | 2017 | $6.48 | — |
| Ultimate Masters #127 (U) | 2018 | $6.57 | $3.25 |
| Modern Masters #110 (U) | 2013 | $7.58 | — |
| Secret Lair Drop #1984 (R) | 2025 | $21.05 | $16.00 |
| Secret Lair Drop #2706 (R) | 2026 | — | — |
| Treasure Chest #65851 (U) | 2016 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
.Splice onto Arcane
(As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 7 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
5 PrecedentsIf all of the spell’s targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen.
A card with a splice ability can’t be spliced onto itself because the spell is on the stack (and not in your hand) when you reveal the cards you want to splice onto it.
You reveal all cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can be spliced only once onto any one spell.
You choose all targets for the spell after revealing cards you want to splice, including any targets required by the text of any of those cards. You may choose a different target for each instance of the word “target” on the resulting spell.
Desperate Ritual isn’t a mana ability. When cast, it (or the spell it’s spliced onto) goes on the stack like any spell and can be responded to.