---
name: "Pyrrhic Strike"
mana_cost: "{2}{W}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Instant"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["Blight"]
set: "ECL"
set_name: "Lorwyn Eclipsed"
collector_number: "30"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Randy Vargas"
oracle_id: "5ea1d89c-8650-4373-9835-e369587020ef"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/pyrrhic-strike-ecl"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Pyrrhic Strike
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{W}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Instant
- **Keywords:** Blight

## Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 2. (You may put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
Choose one. If this spell's additional cost was paid, choose both instead.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or greater.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Cinder Strike](/printing/cinder-strike-ecl.md) — Sorcery
2. [Pyrrhic Blast](/printing/pyrrhic-blast-bro.md) — Instant
3. [Requiting Hex](/printing/requiting-hex-ecl.md) — Instant
4. [Wild Unraveling](/printing/wild-unraveling-ecl.md) — Instant
5. [Bogslither's Embrace](/printing/bogslithers-embrace-ecl.md) — Sorcery
6. [Sudden Strike](/printing/sudden-strike-msc.md) — Instant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) #30
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Randy Vargas
- **Total Printings:** 6 across all historical editions

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