Ambition's Cost

set	min	mtgo
-	0.71	0.02 tix

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Name	Ambition's Cost
Type	Sorcery
Description	You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Flavor	"Conquering your first world is the hardest, after all. My power grew as I moved from world to world, taking anything that would make the next taking easier." —Ob Nixilis
Artist	Zezhou Chen
Set	March of the Machine Commander #246
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Ambition's Cost

Ambition's Cost, Sorcery, designed by Junko Taguchi first released in May, 1999 in the set Portal Three Kingdoms and was printed exactly in 19 different ways. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 0.71.

A deck that focuses on card advantage and doesn't mind losing some life would benefit from using Ambition's Cost, such as a control deck looking to draw into answers or combo pieces. However, there are better alternatives like Night's Whisper or Sign in Blood that provide card draw without the life loss, making them more efficient choices in most situations. Ambition's Cost could see play in specific strategies that can leverage the life loss for some benefit, but in general, there are more optimal options available.

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