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Butcher of Malakir

Creature — Vampire Warrior5 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Take the Grave Pact effect and bolt it onto a body, and you get a sacrifice engine that no longer depends on the rest of your board surviving. Where the enchantment version reads as a static rule everyone has to play around, this one carries its own clock: a 5/4 flier that closes games while it strips the opposing board one creature at a time. The trigger is the entire point of building around it. Each death you control, including the Butcher's own, forces every opponent to sacrifice, so the card rewards a deck that treats its creatures as ammunition: tokens, sacrifice fodder, anything you were happy to lose. Edicts have always been black's answer to hexproof, shroud, and the single threat too big to remove conventionally; this turns that one-shot effect into a recurring tax that fires every time a creature on your side hits the bin. The seven-mana price and the double-black requirement are what keep it from being a casual inclusion: this is a payoff you commit to, not a curve-filler. Pair it with any reliable death stream and the math against a multiplayer table becomes brutal, since one of your tokens dying costs three or four opponents a creature apiece in a single trigger.

Butcher of Malakir (cma)
CMA · #50rare
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Normal: $0.40
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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