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Desperate Plea
Sorcery — Lesson
rare
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.
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Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.
A keyword ability that lets a player cast a spell for less by sacrificing a creature. See rule 702.119, “Emerge.”
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.
Cares about power of creatures — Fling effects, power-based draw, Xenagos strategies.
Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
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.
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Printings (2)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal#103 | rare | · | · | · |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal#185 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
Emerge
Emerge represents two static abilities that function while the spell with emerge is on the stack. “Emerge [cost]” means “You may cast this spell by paying [cost] and sacrificing a creature rather than paying its mana cost” and “If you chose to pay this spell’s emerge cost, its total cost is reduced by an amount of generic mana equal to the sacrificed creature’s mana value.” Casting a spell using its emerge ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.
Emerge from [quality] is a variant of emerge. “Emerge from [quality] [cost]” means “You may cast this spell by paying [cost] and sacrificing a [quality] permanent rather than paying its mana cost” and “If you pay this spell’s emerge cost, its total cost is reduced by an amount of generic mana equal to the sacrificed permanent’s mana value.”
You choose which permanent to sacrifice as you choose to pay a spell’s emerge cost (see rule 601.2b), and you sacrifice that permanent as you pay the total cost (see rule 601.2h).
Rulings
Because you select targets for Desperate Plea before paying its additional cost, the first mode cannot target and return the creature you sacrificed.