Chain Devil

Symmetrical edicts have always been a curious design corner: an effect that hits every player equally reads as fair, but whoever pays the mana decides when the tax lands, and that timing is the whole game. Here the sacrifice fires on the body's arrival, so the deployment turn belongs to the caster, and at a table where an opponent may be holding a lone threat or a single value engine, forcing everyone to give up a nontoken creature is rarely as even as the wording suggests. Black has been printing this exact effect since its earliest removal, so the ability word dressing it up is pure flavor; what matters is the delivery. The edict rides in on a permanent rather than a card that goes to the yard, so it stays behind to block, attack, and (crucially) fire the trigger again if flickered or reanimated. That reusability is the real lever. The 4/2 body dies to almost anything, which keeps the recursion loop from being trivial to assemble, but any deck built around blink or graveyard recursion converts a one-time tax into a repeating one. And because each player chooses their own sacrifice, the effect strains hardest when the table is already thin on nontoken bodies: against a board of spent utility creatures it plucks the least valuable, but land it when everyone is down to their keystones and it becomes a group-wide surgical strike disguised as a fair deal.