Card text
Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.
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Mana cost
{B}{B}{B}
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Card text
Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Cruel Bargain
Cruel Bargain (86) is a Black Sorcery from Portal (POR). It costs {B}{B}{B} and has mana value 3. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
Portal is a main expansion, released June 1997.
Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Card details
- Card number
- 86
- Set
- Portal (POR)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 2 June 1997
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Sorcery
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {B}{B}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Cruel Bargain
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