Merciless Executioner

Edicts have always had a blind spot: hand the opponent the choice of what dies and they feed you a token, a spent Llanowar Elves, anything they were happy to lose. Stapling that effect to a creature does not fix the choice, but it fixes the frequency. Now the sacrifice is a trigger rather than a one-shot spell, and every blink, reanimation, or bounce loop turns "each player sacrifices a creature of their choice" into a repeatable engine. That recursion is the entire reason the card earns its keep past its cost. The symmetry is real but rarely bites: you fire it holding a creature you are glad to give up (a token, an exhausted body, the Executioner itself once it has done its work) while the opponent parts with something they wanted. The 3/1 frame is almost incidental, fragile enough that it usually becomes fodder for the next iteration of the effect. What keeps the design durable across years is that it answers the threat targeted removal cannot touch: the hexproof or shroud creature that shrugs off spot removal but has no reply to a sacrifice clause it chooses under. This is the edict given legs, built so the recursion strategies black has always chased finally have a sacrifice trigger worth looping.