Dark Ritual allows you to take advantage of drawing multiple cards a turn back during the black summer of Magic , it wasn't unusual to see a player drawing 4-5 cards a turn every turn of the game using Necropotence to fuel their crazed game of "holy cow, is this for real?" No other card in Magic has allowed a player to draw so many cards turn after turn so cheaply
You can sacrifice them using the +2 ability, which will draw you additional cards, and in just three turns you can activate the -9 ability
What makes Magics so special, and why is it so prevalent
Maybe my school librarian making a suggestion to twelve-year-old me started me on a path that got me to where I am today
That being said, unless this card breaks Standard open in the coming months, it wouldn't surprise me to see this card's value drift a little lower before it bottoms
The cards come with some unique features, like the return of double-sided cards with Doric's as she appears in her favored owlbear form on one side