Birthing Ritual costs {1}{G} and serves as a flexible engine for green decks. At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
In practice, Birthing Ritual turns small creatures into bigger threats through a controlled glimpse at your next draws, rewarding careful timing and creature value management. It shines in creature heavy builds that leverage sacrifice outlets and token generation to maximize the value of mana value thresholds. When you connect with the right play, the top seven look gives you options to reanimate or deploy a higher value creature for the battlefield, adding resilience to your long game plan.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost: {1}{G}
- Card Type: Enchantment
- Subtypes: (none)
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed): At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- Power / Toughness: —
- Loyalty: —