---
name: "Vicious Rivalry"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}{G}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["B", "G"]
color_identity: ["B", "G"]
keywords: []
set: "SOS"
set_name: "Secrets of Strixhaven"
collector_number: "359"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Chris Rallis"
oracle_id: "90898c76-21f9-4597-88fe-dc9179911cde"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/vicious-rivalry-sos"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Vicious Rivalry
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}{G}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value X or less.

> *So intense was their hatred they didn't realize how lonely they'd become. In the end, all they had was each other, and they hated that, too.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Pernicious Deed](/printing/pernicious-deed-cns.md) — Enchantment
2. [Eliminate the Competition](/printing/eliminate-the-competition-kld.md) — Sorcery
3. [Void](/printing/void-tsb.md) — Sorcery
4. [Forced March](/printing/forced-march-mmq.md) — Sorcery
5. [Gaze of Granite](/printing/gaze-of-granite-pidw.md) — Sorcery
6. [Villainous Wrath](/printing/villainous-wrath-spm.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) #359
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Chris Rallis
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

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