Gideon's Sacrifice
Instant$0.18
Choose a creature or planeswalker you control. All damage that would be dealt this turn to you and permanents you control is dealt to the chosen permanent instead (if it's still on the battlefield).
Legal in Commander
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Combos 6
Gideon's Sacrifice + Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting Anti-Venom Whenever damage would be dealt to you, Gideon's Sacrifice causes that damage to be redirected to Anti-Venom. Anti-Venom will then prevent the damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Gideon's Sacrifice + Repercussion + Brash Taunter
- Infinite damage to one opponent
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have a way to deal damage to Brash Taunter. Brash Taunter is indestructible.
Steps
Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting Brash Taunter. Deal damage to Brash Taunter. Brash Taunter and Repercussion trigger. Resolve the Brash Taunter trigger, dealing damage to an applicable target. Resolve the Repercussion trigger, dealing damage to Brash Taunter instead of you due to Gideon's Sacrifice. Repeat from step 2.
Gideon's Sacrifice + Vigor
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you
- Lock
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting a creature you control. Whenever damage would be dealt to you, Gideon's Sacrifice causes that damage to be redirected to the creature it's attached to. Vigor will then prevent the damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on that creature instead.
Gideon's Sacrifice + Fiendlash + Barbed Servitor
- Infinite damage to one opponent
- Infinite lifeloss
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have a way to deal damage to Barbed Servitor.
Steps
Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting Barbed Servitor Deal damage to Barbed Servitor Barbed Servitor and Fiendlash trigger. Resolve the Barbed Servitor trigger, causing an opponent to lose life equal to the damage dealt to Barbed Servitor. Resolve the Fiendlash trigger, targeting you, but dealing damage to Barbed Servitor instead due to Gideon's Sacrifice. Repeat from step 3.
Gideon's Sacrifice + Smaug the Impenetrable + Volcano Hellion
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite artifact tokens
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting Smaug. Cast Volcano Hellion by paying {2}{R}{R}. When Volcano Hellion enters, it triggers, dealing an arbitrarily large amount of damage to Smaug Smaug triggers, creating an amount of Treasure tokens equal to the damage it was dealt.
Gideon's Sacrifice + Heartless Hidetsugu + Collective Inferno
- Near-infinite damage
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
Each opponent's life total is 2 or greater.
Steps
Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}. Activate Heartless Hidetsugu by tapping it, dealing damage to each opponent equal to half their life total, rounded down, times 2, and dealing no damage to you due to Gideon's Sacrifice.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.
Best commanders
Commanders whose abilities work with this card and share its colors, from what the cards do.
- Silverquill, the DisputantGideon's Sacrifice is an Instant or sorcery, which Silverquill, the Disputant can use.
- Aziza, Mage Tower CaptainGideon's Sacrifice is an Instant or sorcery, which Aziza, Mage Tower Captain can use.
- Feather, Radiant ArbiterGideon's Sacrifice is an Instant or sorcery, which Feather, Radiant Arbiter can use.
- Sevinne, the ChronoclasmGideon's Sacrifice is an Instant or sorcery, which Sevinne, the Chronoclasm can use.
- Shiko and Narset, UnifiedShiko and Narset, Unified copies your spells and Gideon's Sacrifice is an Instant or sorcery.