---
name: "Blackmail"
mana_cost: "{B}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "9ED"
set_name: "Ninth Edition"
collector_number: "115"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Christopher Moeller"
oracle_id: "2dc6da5d-c4d1-4f2c-8f46-11a935bc0044"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/blackmail-9ed"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Blackmail
- **Mana Cost:** `{B}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle Text
Target player reveals three cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

> *In addition to killing peasants, punishing subordinates, and raising an army of nightmares, Braids somehow found time for her favorite hobby: petty extortion.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Distress](/printing/distress-10e.md) — Sorcery
2. [Dark Inquiry](/printing/dark-inquiry-rix.md) — Sorcery
3. [Unmask](/printing/unmask-mmq.md) — Sorcery
4. [Lay Bare the Heart](/printing/lay-bare-the-heart-akh.md) — Sorcery
5. [Duress](/printing/duress-xln.md) — Sorcery
6. [Pulse of the Dross](/printing/pulse-of-the-dross-dst.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Ninth Edition (9ED) #115
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Christopher Moeller
- **Total Printings:** 19 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`