Chainer's Edict

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature.

Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

SteelSentry on Are Free Spells Becoming Too …

5 months ago

Edicts are incredibly powerful in their niche situations, but overall, a non-stipulation edict usually doesn't preform well outside control shells that just need more ways to kill things. Mono-B devotion used to be far and away the most popular deck in Pauper, which had maindeck copies of Chainer's Edict and more in the sideboard, which you'd think would make them more than prepared for strategies that go all in on one creature, but even Bogles and Mono-W Heroic had a good number of ways to just create trash to insulate themselves, either incidentally with auras like Cartouche of Solidarity or just keeping a hand with two Bogles in it on the draw. I play Lili in Standard right now and almost every time she goes -2, +1, dead, and the +1 isn't guaranteed. If you expand from creature to other types of permanents, there is just piles and piles of artifact trash on everyone's board in almost every format. I played Braids, Arisen Nightmare in commander and you may as well just not put any artifacts in the deck at all, it's a waste of a trigger to use them.

thijmnesoy on Pauper Jund Midrange (based on Modern Jund)

1 year ago

very sweet list! you totally convinced me on Essence Warden and Wakedancer. The only remarks I have to this deck are that I would put Cast Down instead of Doom Blade, or even Feed the Swarm, which works kind of like Abrupt Decay since it also hits enchantments. Furthermore I would use Divest instead of Ostracize.

Then, I wanna suggest Sibsig Icebreakers as a little Liliana, in addition to Chainer's Edict

K4nkato on Mono black, pauper, control, burn, and combat

1 year ago

^ to expand on the comment above, Pauper’s premier black removal are Chainer's Edict and Cast Down.

wallisface on Project Murder

1 year ago

Some thoughts:

• Chainer's Edict isn’t modern legal.

• running soo many cards as 1-ofs and 2-ofs in the deck will lead to consistency issues. A deck should normally be aiming for the vast majority of its cards to be playsets (4-ofs). A good approach for newer players is to pick 9 cards and run playsets of each of those (making 36 cards), alongside 24 lands.

• your mana curve is a bit too high. Modern decks can’t justify running more than 4 cards (1 playset) costing 4 mana, and never run anything above this. You’ve got a whopping 10 cards costing 4-or-more mana, which will lead to slow/clumsy turns. This issue only gets compounded by your relative lack of 1-mana cards, meaning you’ll often be starting the game a full-turn behind your opponent (a really dangerous place to be). Going from the suggestion of picking 9 cards, their mana curve should look something like 1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4.

• even with a lower curve as suggested above, you’ll still need more lands - 21 is too low to reliably cast your 3-4 mana cards in any reasonable timeframe. I’d suggest you need 23-24 lands minimum.

amarthaler on Pauper Songs of the Darned

1 year ago

Updated the sideboard to have answers to popular archetypes in my area:

Faerie Macabre for graveyard hate (Tron Control)

Chainer's Edict for non-target removal (Bogle Voltron)

Also added Deadly Dispute as a fantastic form of card draw and ramp for this deck.

MrMortifex145 on Mono Black Control - 2022

1 year ago

Profet93 Thanks for the suggestion! The deal is that Chainer's Edict flashback becomes extremely relevant, I've been playing mono B for years and we never really had a strong card advantage engine so having singular cards that replace themselves or give card advantage becomes really fundamental, especially since this deck can really drag out games with all the removal, plus more removal late game can be really cluch since most decks now have singular chuncky boys as win cons (gone are the days of Atog + Fling thankfully). As for the life loss I 100% agree and I've always been against Snuff Out in mono B. However, now that turn 2 Tolarian Terror is a thing, having two Snuff Out in my experience does save some games since you don't have to wait for turn 4 to Cast Down it and hope they don't have a Counterspell or Spell Pierce. Before Tolarian Terror was meta, instead of Snuff Out I had the second Crypt Rats and Oubliette in the main and an Okiba-Gang Shinobi in the side. This would honestly be my favorite version, maybe when Tolarian Terror isn't so prevalent or if you don't play that much against it I would recommend these cards. Really appreciate that you like the deck!

Allan-Chefa- on Persistent Control

2 years ago

I tested the deck and won a few games but lost most. The games were against decks from the current meta. "Back to the lab" Ponder and Brainstorm were great cards with Persistent Petitioners and Fetchlands so I increased it from 6 to 8. Arms of Hadar is strong i increased it from 2 to 3. Dramatic Reversal, Agony Warp and Echoing Decay were dead or weak cards in all games removed. Chainer's Edict will remain in the deck but as Persistent Petitioners is 1/3 a creature was always sacrificed that didn't bother me... maybe Snuff Out goes well in this deck. I need tips on the mana curve and side, thanks.

Allan-Chefa- on Persistent Control

2 years ago

Thanks, those were the tips I needed! Well-remembered Mystical Teachings was missing from the deck. Pestilence and Evincar's Justice are strong but I think Evincar's Justice will get better. About Brainstorm I'm going to be stubborn and test first I love this card but I'll probably replace it with Ponder or Preordain I don't know which one is better in the deck but neither of them is card advantage and instead of the CCO I'll test Consult the Necrosages which seems versatile. The price of 2 Chainer's Edict are the value of the deck in Brazil hehehe but if the deck works I'll buy it. Thks