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Ruthless Disposal

Sorcery4 generic manaBlack mana

The -13/-13 is not flavor; it is a threshold. Toughness-reduction removal usually stops short of the biggest bodies a deck can field, but a thirteen-point drop clears past almost anything, and it does so to two targets at once, walking straight past indestructible on the way. That reach is what the cost line buys. You pay five mana, discard a card, and sacrifice a creature, all to kill two of the opponent's. That sacrifice is the catch: spending a body to kill bodies makes this a two-for-one only on paper. To come out ahead on material you need fodder that already wanted to die, a token to feed it, or a creature whose death pays you back. Outside that, you are trading three of your resources for two of theirs and calling it removal. No instant-speed ambush softens the deal either; as a sorcery it cannot answer an attack or a flashed-in threat. What you do get is toughness reach that damage-based sweepers cannot match. It is not catch-all removal, though: "two target creatures" means hexproof locks it out, and the spell wants two legal targets on cast (if one target becomes illegal before resolution, the survivor still eats the -13/-13). This is removal for a deck that treats its own creatures as ammunition, where the additional cost reads less as a tax than as an on-ramp for the engine already running underneath it.

Ruthless Disposal (emn)
EMN · #103uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card and sacrifice a creature. Two target creatures each get -13/-13 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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