Birthing Ritual: Forest Renewal Engine
Birthing Ritual from Modern Horizons 3 is a green enchantment that builds value late in the game by trading your board presence for next-level draws. For {1}{G}, it sits on the battlefield and triggers at your end step if you control a creature. You look at the top seven cards of your library and 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. The remaining cards are put on the bottom of your library in a random order. It’s a measured engine that rewards careful timing and creature synergy, turning a single sacrifice into a potential battlefield payoff.
In practice, Birthing Ritual asks you to weigh risk and reward each turn. It rewards decks that can generate and sacrifice creatures to fetch flexible threats from the top of the library, enabling a controlled cascade of plays rather than a single slam. The card aligns with green’s natural ambition to reestablish board presence and accelerate threats, offering a dependable route to surprise your opponent with a well-timed creature from your own deck.
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 – —
