Hired Torturer

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Hired Torturer

Creature — Human Rogue

Defender

{3}{B}, {T}: Target opponent loses 2 life and reveals a card at random from his or her hand.

FormOverFunction on Torture!

2 years ago

ClockworkSwordfish back when this was a mono-Black deck they were both in there (I especially LOVE hired torturer’s theme). When I shifted over to Grixis colors there were so few slots I lost some great flavor cards. Hired Torturer is one of the first black cards that will come back if I get the chance!!

ClockworkSwordfish on Torture!

2 years ago

I'm surprised to not see Cabal Torturer and Hired Torturer in here!

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

3 years ago

So, black has goblins, and black doesn't really do random. It causes random discard or reveal with Hired Torturer, but otherwise, just Ghoulraiser's Zombie reanimation and Archdemon of Paliano's drawback, which I think is the only time randomness is used as a downside for black, so I feel okay using it as the "breaking" effect.

Squeaking Pie Baker (From Squeaking Pie Sneak's flavor text)

Creature - Goblin Wizard

, , Sacrifice a creature at random: Destroy target creature, create a Food token.

, Sacrifice a Food: Target player loses three life.

2/4


^that was my challenge for before, but I saw this challenge and love it!!

Similar to Ugin, the Spirit Dragon vs. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, I'd imagine Vivien's twin would be similarly creature-oriented, but very different direction. As Vivien means Alive, Morticia is a reference to death:

Morticia, Skullgrafter

Legendary Planeswalker - Morticia

Creatures you control have Undying.

+1: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

-4: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then discard a card.

-9: Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

5


While Vivien makes spirit creatures, Morticia makes zombies


I'd like to see a common modal (charms, or like Charming Prince types) or split card (Adventures, Kamigawa flips, double-faced cards, etc.).

or, I may have been ninja'd again?

ANemoAcids on The First Good $10 Commander Deck on Tapped Out

5 years ago

So I really like what you're doing here and the work you're putting in to your budget limitations.

Couple of things to consider: there are two different printings of Diabolic Tutor at 25 cents on SCG.

This next card is a little bit more difficult to spare space and card slots for, and would definitely require an absolute need for the card draw, but we have Glint-Sleeve Siphoner who is often too small a body for many people to care about, so it's never a removal priority (usually just killed in boardwipes etc) and is such an excellent 2-drop to find in the early game.

Next, to bring this to a new level and create a page on this site that cements you as King of Macar primers, I definitely think you should have 2 upgrade lists put aside that offer upgrades for a $20 budget, and for a $50 budget. Both of those are well in to the sub $100 range that you can call budget, and the first thing I always see people do with decklists is ask "what are some cheap ways I can improve this?"

Good work with everything so far, +1 from me. Also your title change gave me a good laugh, I like it.

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