Grisly Ritual

Six mana for unconditional removal is a bad rate by any modern measure, and the two Blood tokens are the tax rebate the design attaches to make the price palatable. The trade being offered is not efficiency but stability: you pay a full turn's worth of mana to answer any creature or planeswalker on the board (no toughness cap, no color restriction, no counter to leave behind), and you walk away with two loot engines that smooth your next several draws. Blood tokens are the weakest of the token suite by design, each one a one-shot discard-to-draw that presumes you already hold a card worth pitching, so the payoff here is deliberately slow rather than explosive. What the ritual actually rewards is a graveyard deck: the discards feed reanimation, delirium, and escape costs, turning the tokens from filler into fuel. That reframing is the only case the card makes for itself. As raw interaction it is outclassed by half the black removal ever printed; as a kill spell that quietly stocks your yard while it kills, it joins a narrow class of removal that does a second job, alongside spells that draw or drain on resolution. Sorcery speed is what keeps the whole package honest: it denies the card any use as a reactive answer, so you commit to it on your own turn, at your own pace, as a value play wearing a removal spell's clothes.