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Ruthless Deathfang

Creature — Dragon4 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

The trick most aristocrat payoffs offer is symmetrical attrition: you trade resources for resources and hope to come out ahead on the math. This Dragon rewrites that exchange so it only ever cuts one way. Every creature you feed to a sacrifice outlet forces the chosen opponent to give one up too, and like every edict, they pick which, so they will protect a key threat by feeding a token or a spent body instead. The leverage is not in dodging that choice; it is in volume. The flying 4/4 body is almost beside the point: the engine is the line that fires on each individual sacrifice rather than once per turn. Stack a free outlet against a board of disposable creatures and the trigger chains into a multi-creature edict, and an opponent can only sandbag so many fodder bodies before the losses reach something real. The cost is the obvious one: six mana, and a sacrifice subtheme already assembled to feed it, or the card sits inert with no outlet and no bodies to eat. What it offers in return is a repeatable edict effect that ignores hexproof, shroud, and indestructibility, because the opponent does the sacrificing. It sits in a lineage of edicts that punish creature decks for committing, but where a single edict is a one-time tax, this turns every sacrifice you were already going to make into a second removal spell aimed across the table.

Ruthless Deathfang (dtk)
DTK · #229uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.70
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you sacrifice a creature, target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
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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