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Master of Cruelties
Creature — Demon
First strike, deathtouch
This can only attack alone.
Whenever this attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. This creature assigns no combat damage this combat.





Flarhoon13 on
Blim's Blumpkins
5 months ago
Blim lost again, at least its sixth loss in a row, this time to Jesse's Will Kenrith and Rowan Kenrith. I had a Hail Mary top deck off Immortal Coil pay off: Disrupt Decorum. I attacked and gave the coil to Francois, who had put us all to 1 with Master of Cruelties. Anyway, he chose to boardwipe with Toxic Deluge rather than killing anyone else or even attacking Jesse's planeswalkers, which handily killed us with a Rowan Kenrith ultimate and Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might Flip out and finding a Flame Fusillade for the kill shot.
ThassaUpYo@ssa on
Angry Birds
5 months ago
+1 for the laugh!
It's a "flying creatures with attitude" tribal (minus Master of Cruelties and the handful of humans that add to the synergy).
lazarusdraigon on
10 months ago
Rune-Scarred Demon, Isshin, Two Heavens as One, Sol Ring & Master of Cruelties
Fux2209 on
B/R Deathtouch Destruction
11 months ago
Hello Niko9
Thanks for your tips and Upvote
Yes it's realy funny playing with it
Yeah, deathtouch + first strike is such a powerfull combo
Master of Cruelties for example is just an awesome card
But I like this deck working without first strike, it gives me room for other cool cards... In combination with first strike I would have to built it complete different
I already built a DeathTouch deck, but it isn't finisht yet... I just need to improve it more, before I get it online here
Rhadamanthus on Master of Cruelties and interactions
1 year ago
Yes, it still triggers. The declare blockers step of combat only gets skipped if there were no creatures declared as attackers or put onto the battlefield attacking. Otherwise, it always happens, even if it is impossible for any blockers to be declared. If Master of Cruelties is attacking then there will definitely be a declare blockers step and its last ability will trigger if it doesn't get blocked.
xcontla on Master of Cruelties and interactions
1 year ago
I have some questions with this card in some specific times.
I understand that the ability triggers in the declare blockers step.
- If Master of Cruelties gains skulk, Does his ability still trigger? ("... opponent life becomes 1").
- If I equipped some artifact that made Master of Cruelties unblockable, Does his ability still trigger? ("... opponent life becomes 1").
- If the opponent doesn't have creatures in the battlefield, Does his ability still trigger? ("... opponent life becomes 1").
Thank you.
Profet93 on
Tri-bal
1 year ago
Oops, not sure how I missed that. Couple of questions...
- How often do you get a chance to meld them together?
- How often does your creature get removed in response to equipping gift of immortality?
- Budget? I ask because Demonic Tutor/Grim Tutor > Diabolic, mostly due to your curve.
Master of Cruelties > Ironas - Given all your creatures have flying, how often do you run into fliers stopping them? Master is deadly.
Sneak Attack > Quick amulet - maybe
Spirits on
Kaalia, Mirror Breaker EDH
1 year ago
The Snow-Covered Swamp and Snow-Covered Plains are protection against Blood Moon. We don't need Mountain because most of the lands will be mountains in that case.
They also cannot be Swamp or Plains because then you have a potential of countering our own Tainted Pact when looking for a Razaketh, the Foulblooded or a Master of Cruelties with Kaalia of the Vast triggered ability on the stack, or when looking for that last combo piece, or a Counterspell to stop someone from winning the game. It doubles our options for basic lands but also means that they don't conflict with our intstant tutor.
Mox Diamond could replace an interaction piece like Praetor's Grasp but it is nice to pull the opponents Thassa's Oracle and then win the game with a Tainted Pact. It could also pull a more control oriented card like Hellkite Tyrant that doesn't necessarily win the game, but he can devestate some players boards, could replace a Grand Abolisher but probably Everybody Lives! because well Everybody Lives (except the player trying to Fish-Consul win that is). Chrome Mox has a low activation rate in the turns that matter (I have a tab with the calculations but I haven't update my combine rates based on new artifacts, although Mox Diamond actually improves it's rate. Rakdos Signet isn't great becuase it's a MV3 (2 to cast, 1 to activate), so probably just easy to replace that! Thrill of Possibility is good to get a Worldgorger Dragon or Razaketh, the Foulblooded if for some reason we draw it, but isn't necessary. Thoughtseize might even be better (just target yourself), but even when used on an opponent it creates card disadvantage for you and one opponent, leaving the two others with card advantage now.
Probably Rakdos Signet goes, but we have different options for sure.
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