LOL! All it does is add mana to your mana pool?! Who would play a dumb card like this? Not only that, but you have to play black to get black. They should make one of these for ALL the colors, like they did for the "lace" cards. You know, a cycle of cards that no one in their right mind would ever play. Sometimes I wonder what Wizards R&D is smoking... An instant that just gives black mana. Heck, I have lands that can produce black mana over and over again. Way better than a one time use instant.
IJWSHMPTIABSLOL
Supernovae
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
if can´t see the vaue of dark ritual you really have a lot to learn.
pajhavok1
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I have to agree with Supernovae, ***180;t just dosen't understand the power of this card. I was in a game where someone got an amazing draw and played a 9 converted mana cost creature (The Sprit of the Night) on the first turn by using this card. He won that game very quickly. This card is one of the ones that I would like to see reprinted again.
Fiber13
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
It's one of the few cards you can search bins for at your local shop and purchase for $.10/$.20 whatever and it's actually worth the cost. Swamp->Dark Ritual->Hypnotic Specter Not a bad start for most of the limited games I had played.
spoonish
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
a very nasty card when used right.. especially to kick start a game.. i cant believe someone actually doesnt think its worth it... any card that gives more mana out than it costs has to be worth something...
John-Bender
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
For the people who don't understand WHY this is good. I'm going to give an example.
Okay now it's your first turn and you have this and a Swamp in your hand. You play the Swamp and tap it, gaining one black mana. Now you use it to cast Dark Ritual. Now you have 3 black mana. Whoa look at that! you have a Death Baron in your hand! Since he cost only 3 mana to play, you just got a huge advantage over your opponent because you got a great creature out on the first turn instead of the third!
See? I don't understand how some people can't see why this card is good.
opinionfailure
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Eppek_the_Goblin: LOL! All it does is let you play a first turn Hypnotic Specter? Who wouldn't play an awesome card like this? Not only that, but you only need one swamp to cast it, no need to splash for mana accel! Oh, and this card is apart of a cycle. The famous 1-for-3 cycle, each color has one. Giant Growth, Healing Salve, Ancestral Recall, Lightning Bolt, and this lovely card right here Dark Ritual. You know, a cycle of cards that everyone plays automatically because of the implied power (except for Healing Salve) and one of them is even banned and restricted. Oh wait, and this thing is an instant? Much better than an on-your-turn only sorcery.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
You guys are really something, you know that? Eppek was obviously pulling your leg... Anyway, its a great card for a lot lot of black decks, but you have to be careful what you use it on if you want to think ahead. first turn hippie is no good if they swords it immediately, now is it? But yeah, storm enablers rarely get any better than this, the only one possibly being Cabal Ritual or Manamorphose.
hand: swamp 4 dark ritual phage the untouchable lightning greaves turn 1 win. oh, and eppek: why do you think black lotus is the best card in magic? this is a BLACK lotus that taps your swamp. whoa! dont you think getting a 3-drop first turn can win you games? 5/5.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My fav of the arts, wish this had been the FTV:20 art, the one they printed had been printed too many times anyway.
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IJWSHMPTIABSLOL
Swamp->Dark Ritual->Hypnotic Specter
Not a bad start for most of the limited games I had played.
Okay now it's your first turn and you have this and a Swamp in your hand. You play the Swamp and tap it, gaining one black mana. Now you use it to cast Dark Ritual. Now you have 3 black mana. Whoa look at that! you have a Death Baron in your hand! Since he cost only 3 mana to play, you just got a huge advantage over your opponent because you got a great creature out on the first turn instead of the third!
See? I don't understand how some people can't see why this card is good.
Anyway, its a great card for a lot lot of black decks, but you have to be careful what you use it on if you want to think ahead. first turn hippie is no good if they swords it immediately, now is it?
But yeah, storm enablers rarely get any better than this, the only one possibly being Cabal Ritual or Manamorphose.
That or a swamp, 4 Dark ritual, Phage, the Untouchable and Lightning Greaves
1Painter's Servant
1Grindstone
1Leyline of the Void
1Swamp
3Dark Ritual
first turn exile target players library
vs
Jace, the Mind Sculptor -12 4th turn exile target players library
nuff said
swamp
4 dark ritual
phage the untouchable
lightning greaves
turn 1 win.
oh, and eppek: why do you think black lotus is the best card in magic? this is a BLACK lotus that taps your swamp. whoa! dont you think getting a 3-drop first turn can win you games? 5/5.
Dark Ritual: B, Essentially win the game
5/5 Stars