Archon of Cruelty

Creature — Archon

Flying

Whenever this enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

zigkid3 on Zenith Seeker

3 months ago

Archon of Cruelty is an Archon, not a demon, fyi. Baleful Strix does not match your commander's color identity. Ophiomancer Why? Just for blockers? Maybe try Luminarch Ascension instead Yarok, the Desecrated Doesn't match your commander's color identity

I like the Ephemerate I feel like its an underrated card so bonus points for that.

Niko9 on How Good is Pain Magnification?

5 months ago

Last_Laugh I agree with you, in commander it looks like a very snowballey enchantment. I think Pain Magnification might take the right deck to be great, it's not a rakdos staple, but in the right build it would absolutely be a must remove threat.

The main drawback I could see with it is that in commander players can get very salty about discarding and not everyone will have enchant removal, so you may become the archenemy when you play this.

Just throwing out ideas here, but Pain Magnification might be brutal in a rakdos Blade of Selves deck that runs Balor and Archon of Cruelty as reanimated blade carriers.

ViscountVonSausageRoll on Temporary Graveyard

6 months ago

I can tell when you played xD

And hey, don't sell yourself short, casual 60 card is the epitome of magic.

Budget Suggestions (≤ $10): Griselbrand because he's awesome, Dark Ritual because speed, Go for the Throat or alternatively: I see you're running Bone Shredder. Perhaps considering replacing with Shriekmaw? He's less hardcastable, but he does throw himself into your graveyard in a hurry. Consider Buried Alive to fill the GY? Vampire Nighthawk has been replaced with Nighthawk Scavenger I know, the powercreeper has been powercrept.

Non-Budget Suggestions ($10+): Archon of Cruelty. I mean, read what it does. Right? That's ridiculous.
Recurring Nightmare It's pricey, but it's absolutely busted. (It sacs a dude and bounces to your hand as an additional cost) It never goes away.
Atraxa, Grand Unifier Honestly not my cup of tea, but she's very powerful. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Only because: It's just good in this deck. You're already running Liliana of the Dark Realms x2 and Coffers. Maybe find some heavily played ones?

Make Room: The most unfun part of coming back to any old deck. Well, Liliana Vess is just too expensive now days (even back then she was kinda pricey), but most of the time she ends up being a 5 CMC vampiric tutor at sorcery speed anyways. She never lives long.

Sorin Markov kind of falls under the same boat, at least in this deck imo. Usually by the time you can cast him, opponents aren't at 20 life anymore, so the appeal of "10 dmg" can be somewhat deceptive.

Anyways, welcome back, and I hope you enjoy yourself

wallisface on Curie and cloning clones

6 months ago

Curie will effectively be an Archon of Cruelty that’s additionally an artifact and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its base power."

When Phyrexian Metamorph is in the battlefield, all it has is the characteristics of whatever it copied (+ it's an artifact) the regular Phyrexian Metamorph characteristics aren't copiable anymore.

K4nkato on Curie and cloning clones

6 months ago

If I control a Phyrexian Metamorph cloning an Archon of Cruelty and I activate Curie, Emergent Intelligence exiling said Metamorph, what happens?

Headers13 on Die By Sacrificing

6 months ago

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legendofa on turn 1 Iona, sheild of …

8 months ago

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Casual borgan

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How much money are you willing to spend on this deck? Atraxa, Grand Unifier and Archon of Cruelty are popular reanimator targets right now, and I see Griselbrand already in the decklist.

Fluggleshmuggits on Cube Eternal

9 months ago

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