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To the Slaughter

Instant2 generic manaBlack mana

Edict effects live and die by the word "choice": the defender picks what dies, so the spell is only as good as an empty board or a lone threat leaves it. This one keeps that constraint honest at base, then rewards a stocked graveyard by doubling the demand. With delirium online, the target gives up a creature and a planeswalker, two separate sacrifices decided independently, so a player committing only one permanent to each category cannot wriggle out by feeding whichever is cheaper. That is the design lever here: the edict's traditional weakness against a lone token or a solo walker gets partially answered, because a board holding both loses one of each regardless of which the controller would rather keep. Planeswalkers are the interesting half of that clause, since they normally shrug off creature-targeted removal and force you to attack them down; forcing a sacrifice sidesteps that entirely, and it does the same to a hexproof or protection-wearing threat that a targeted spell could never touch. Instant speed matters more than the rate suggests: hold it for the attack step, or cast it at the end of the opponent's turn once they have tapped out and committed, then strip a permanent from each category on your terms. The delirium requirement pushes this toward decks already churning instants, sorceries, creatures, and lands into the bin rather than splashing it as a clean answer, but hit the threshold and one card levies a tax on both of the board states edicts usually respect least.

To the Slaughter (psoi)
PSOI · #139srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead that player sacrifices a creature and a planeswalker 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
Legal
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