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Can you sacrifice a creature to multiple sac outlets if each only requires one sacrifice?

Short answer
No. Once a creature is sacrificed it ceases to exist, so it cannot be sacrificed a second time to another outlet.

Sacrificing a permanent means moving it from the battlefield to its owner's graveyard as a cost or effect (CR 701.17a). The moment you sacrifice a creature, it leaves the battlefield and no longer exists as a game object. There is nothing left to sacrifice a second time.

Even if two sacrifice outlets are both available simultaneously — say, two separate activated abilities whose costs each say 'sacrifice a creature' — you can only pay that cost with a given creature once. After the first sacrifice, the creature is in the graveyard and is no longer a legal target or legal cost-payment object for any other ability (CR 701.17b).

It's worth noting that if you activate two sac-outlet abilities at the same time (placing both on the stack), you still need a separate creature for each. You cannot declare the same creature as the sacrifice for both; each ability's cost must be paid with a distinct creature (CR 601.2h, 602.2a).

Example: You control Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder, both of which say 'sacrifice a creature.' You activate both abilities and put them on the stack. You must sacrifice two different creatures to pay both costs — you cannot sacrifice one creature to pay for both, because after it's sacrificed for the first ability it is already in the graveyard.

HIGH confidence CR 601.2h CR 602.2a CR 701.17a CR 701.17b
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