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Grave Pact
Enchantment
mythic
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Semantic Tags
Benefits from creatures dying — drain effects, death triggers, and sacrifice-for-value payoffs.
Benefits from creatures dying — drain effects, death triggers, and sacrifice-for-value payoffs.
Benefits from creatures or permanents dying — death triggers, blood artist effects.
Benefits from creatures or permanents dying — death triggers, blood artist effects.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Broadly benefits from sacrificing permanents — overlaps aristocrats but includes non-creature sacrifice.
Lets you sacrifice your own creatures or permanents for value. Key enabler for aristocrats strategies.
Format Legality
Price history
Printings (16)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop#2615 | rare | · | · | · |
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales#73 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales#93 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales#29 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#639 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#165 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#513 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander Anthology Volume II#65 | rare | · | · | · |
| Commander 2011#85 | rare | · | · | · |
| Planechase#28 | rare | · | · | · |
| Tenth Edition#144 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ninth Edition#135 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ninth Edition#135★ | rare | · | · | · |
| Eighth Edition#137 | rare | · | · | · |
| Eighth Edition#137★ | rare | · | · | · |
| Stronghold#60 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
In a Two-Headed Giant game, when a creature you control dies, Grave Pact's triggered ability will cause each other player, including your teammate, to sacrifice a creature. Grave Pact's ability won't trigger when a creature your teammate controls dies.
None of the players are targeted. A player with hexproof would still sacrifice a creature.
If two players each control a Grave Pact and a creature controlled by one of those players dies, a chain reaction happens. First the ability of that player's Grave Pact will trigger, causing each other player to sacrifice a creature. That sacrifice causes the ability of the other player's Grave Pact to trigger, and so on.
If you control more than one Grave Pact and a creature you control dies, each of the triggered abilities will trigger. Each other player will sacrifice a creature each time one of those abilities resolves.
When the triggered ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is (if it isn't your turn) chooses which creature they will sacrifice, then each other player in turn order does the same, then all chosen creatures are sacrificed at the same time.
If multiple creatures you control die at the same time, Grave Pact's ability will trigger that many times.