Innocent Blood
Mana cost {B}.
Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Innocent Blood is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Odyssey printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€0.88) · TCGplayer ($0.76) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.53 and €1.09 in that time.
How often Innocent Blood is played
Innocent Blood is maindecked in 7 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (5%), averaging 2.6 copies; kept in 1 sideboard (1%); used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 7 of them play it (9%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Innocent Blood
- Contamination: One mana: each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. With Nether Spirit or a Zombie token to give up, you lose nothing that matters, and it gets past shroud and protection, which stop targeted removal.
Tournament decks with Innocent Blood
- Contamination: 1st Place at UC Late Night (3× mainboard)
- Contamination: 6th Place at Premodern & Hooters 9 (3× mainboard)
- Mono Black: 10th Place at Bogardan War II (3× mainboard)
- Clerics: 7th Place at Czech Premodern Nationals 2026 (1× mainboard)
- Mono B Control: 7th Place at Premodern & Hooters 8th Edition (1× mainboard)
- Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (4× mainboard)
- Rector Decree: 3rd Place at Fight Club - Monthly #7 (4× main + sideboard)
Spicy brews with Innocent Blood
- Coffers Control (3×)
