Sudden Edict

Edicts have always been the answer to hexproof, protection, and every threat the caster refuses to target directly: Diabolic Edict and Chainer's Edict built the mold, forcing a sacrifice rather than naming the victim. What sits on top of that familiar effect is the design's whole point. Split second turns a two-mana sacrifice into something the stack cannot touch: no flash creature dropped in to soak the sacrifice, no counterspell, no flicker to blink the target out of range before the choice resolves. That closes the classic edict escape hatch, where a controller keeps a spare body around, or conjures one in response, so the real threat survives; under split second, nothing new can enter the equation between cast and resolution. What it does not close is the sacrifice's fundamental softness: the choice is still the opponent's, so a board of chaff blunts it, and the one thing split second permits (mana abilities) means a controller can still sacrifice their doomed creature to an outlet like Ashnod's Altar before the Edict resolves, converting the kill into value rather than losing the body for nothing. What it strips away is the interactive window the opponent would otherwise lean on. Against a combo piece they would shield, or a single must-answer body they cannot afford to have baited away, this is a sacrifice effect that lands with the argument already settled.