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Szat's Will

Instant4 generic manaBlack mana

The commander clause is the design pivot here, and it works differently than the usual "if you have your commander" upside. Both modes are already playable in a vacuum: a forced sacrifice of the biggest creature per opponent handles the exact threats that dodge sweepers, and the graveyard-exile mode doubles as recursion hate while paying you back in bodies scaled to whatever you removed. What the commander condition does is let you fire both from a single instant, and the two halves are sequenced to feed each other: the sacrifices dump the biggest creatures into their owners' graveyards, and the second mode then exiles those graveyards to determine how many Thrull tokens you get. Cast with a commander out, the same spell can strip a board of its best attackers and hand you an army built from their corpses. Expensive enough that neither mode alone justifies the slot in a fair deck, generous enough that the both-modes line reads like a two-card play folded into one instant. The color identity is pure black, and the effect draws on two of black's foundational tools at once: forced sacrifice and graveyard exile.

Szat's Will (cmr)
CMR · #655rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.17
Foil: $4.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power. • Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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