Cabal Executioner

Most edicts resolve on the stack, where the defender simply names their least valuable creature and moves on: Diabolic Edict and Cruel Edict let an opponent shed a token at instant or sorcery speed without ever stepping into combat. This one rewrites the contract. The sacrifice fires only when the body connects, which means the attacker has to win the combat-damage step before the edict happens. Slip the 2/2 past unblocked and the damaged player has to throw away a creature, and the implication runs deeper than it looks: an attacker that got through unblocked usually got through because nothing on the board was worth trading for it, so the player is already short on bodies when the tribute comes due. The morph option is what makes that connection plausible. Hidden behind a face-down 2/2, it dares the opponent to leave it unblocked rather than spend a creature to stop it; the flip cost of is steep enough that the face-up reveal is a commitment, not a bluff turned cheaply. The threat is purely about getting through, since both the morphed body and the unmasked one are 2/2s and the trigger keys off damage to a player, not to a blocker. So the warping happens in the unblocked attack, not the combat itself: the defender keeps guessing whether the masked attacker is a vanilla beater or a repeatable edict on legs, and guessing wrong costs a creature every turn it lands a hit.