Consumed by Greed

Edict effects fight the same enemy: the opponent who feeds you a token while the real threat survives. This one closes that loophole by dictating which creature goes, forcing the opponent to sacrifice the one with the greatest power among those they control. That single constraint turns a coin-flip against a token swarm anchored by one finisher into a reliable answer, the exact board state where a stock Diabolic Edict lets them shoot a 1/1 and call it a day. And because the spell targets the player rather than the creature, hexproof, ward, and protection on the big body do nothing to stop it; the opponent still has to hand it over.

The gift clause is where the card decides how much it costs. Left alone, this is a clean instant-speed edict aimed at the largest threat on the board. Promise the opponent a card and you tack on graveyard recursion, hauling a creature back to hand while they draw as the tax. The math stays honest: you give one card, you get one back, so the exchange is a lateral trade dressed up as removal that also rebuilds your side. The decision is negotiated at cast rather than baked into the cost, which is the whole point of the mechanic: you choose, per game state, whether the recursion is worth the draw you are handing across the table. Against a flooded opponent that extra card changes nothing; against one scraping for a land or an answer, it is the most dangerous line on the card.