Perforating Artist

Creature — Devil

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (11)

Goldberserkerdragon on How Good is Tyrannize?

1 month ago

Still hung on the Perforating Artist, ehh? If you like the artist or question another card, just swap it and see how it feels. Play some mock games. And dont look at the card game in such a way, nothing wrong with playing powerful cards. You may not even play the deck that night with them. And if you do, you might not see said powerful cards. And you might not even resolve it. And if you do, it might be removed. Removal is the perfect balance to not feel bad for playing good or powerful cards. And it's just a card game. No viciousness needed lol. If people get salty that's on them man, people really need to snap out of it. It's cards. Whatever. Lol, so again, just try the swap brother--Cheers!

DemonDragonJ on Flames of Darkness

1 month ago

I have replaced the two copies of Tyrannize in this deck with two additional copies of Perforating Artist, which reduced the mana curve of this deck from 3.38 to 3.25, because I believed that Tyrannize was simply too expensive for its effect.

DemonDragonJ on How Good is Tyrannize?

1 month ago

I have two copies of Tyrannize in my red/black deck, because I like cards that force my opponents to make a sadistic choice, but that card is rather expensive for a one-shot effect, and I also feel that better options have been printed in recent years, such as Perforating Artist, so I am wondering if I should keep Tyrannize in that deck.

What does everyone else say, about this? How good of a card is Tyrannize?

DemonDragonJ on Diabolical Machinations

2 months ago

I have replaced Slave of Bolas with Perforating Artist, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 4.29 to 4.26, since the former card was simply too expensive for its effect and/or did not do enough for its cost.

DemonDragonJ on How Can I Put Perforating …

2 months ago

multimedia, I actually shall replace Slave of Bolas with Perforating Artist, since the former card is a one-shot effect, and it shall still lower that deck's mana curve; and, as for my Tariel deck, True Conviction is one of my favorite cards, and I actually do not believe that I need Perforating Artist in that deck, after all, since it has plenty of ways to make my opponents sacrifice creatures.

DemonDragonJ on Flames of Darkness

2 months ago

I have replaced the two copies of Lightning Reaver in this deck with two copies of Perforating Artist, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.50 to 3.38, since the reaver was simply too expensive for too little of an effect.

DemonDragonJ on How Can I Put Perforating …

2 months ago

Goldberserkerdragon, yes, that is how I feel about my Tariel deck, since I feel that I have optimized it quite sufficiently, so there is no need to add Perforating Artist, to it, but I am still uncertain about my Thraximundar deck, so I shall wait to receive responses from several other users, here, before I make a decision, about that.

DemonDragonJ on How Can I Put Perforating …

2 months ago

I absolutely shall put Perforating Artist into my EDH decks that contain the colors black and red, but I am not certain what cards I should remove to make room for it.

In my Kresh the Bloodbraided deck, already replaced Decimate with the artist, so that is very good.

In my Thraximundar deck, I was first contemplating removing Exsanguinate, since that cards does not contribute to the theme of the deck, but it is still an excellent card, so I am now instead contemplating removing Slave of Bolas, since that card does contribute to the theme of the deck, but is very expensive for a one-shot effect.

As for my Tariel, Reckoner of Souls deck, I am having difficulty finding a card that I can remove, since nearly every card in that deck already contributes very strongly to its theme, so I may not be able to put Perforating Artist in that deck, unfortunately.

What does everyone else say about this? How can I put Perforating Artist into my EDH decks that contain the colors black and red? I certainly would appreciate any suggestions that anyone here has to offer.