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Ruthless Lawbringer
Creature — Vampire Assassin
When Ruthless Lawbringer enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent.
DemonDragonJ on Should I Put Ruthless Lawbringer …
1 month ago
RiotRunner789, I was contemplating that card, until Ruthless Lawbringer was printed, since I can sacrifice the creature, itself, and then reanimate it, to reuse its ability.
Noire_Samhain, yes, I suppose that that is true, so I do not need to put the vampire into those decks, or at least not into my Teneb deck, since there is no card that I can remove to make room, for it, but I shall put it into my Tariel deck, in place of Wrecking Ball, because, as great as Wrecking Ball is, four mana feels rather high to destroy a creature and destroying lands, especially as an instant, makes other players feel great animosity toward the player who is destroying those lands.
Caerwyn on Should I Put Ruthless Lawbringer …
1 month ago
Ask yourself, what does Ruthless Lawbringer get you that other removal options do not do better? Here are the major downsides I see to the card:
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It is three mana. That is already on the upper end of what feels comfortable for removal.
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It also costs you a creature, meaning it is card disadvantage - you are spending two cards (the Lawbringer and the creature you sacrifice) in order to take out an opponent's one card. That can sometimes be worth it if the cost of the card is low enough that sacrificing a creature to keep mana open would be a good trade. But three mana and the loss of a creature? Extremely steep price to pay.
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As a creature, it is at sorcery speed.
The one advantage it has over something like Mortify is the ability to hit artifacts and planeswalkers (and I guess Battles also, if people actually are using those). However, those colors already have some good options for flexible removal, so I am not sure Lawbringer is really necessary.
DemonDragonJ on
Fires of Purgatory
1 month ago
I have replaced Wrecking Ball with Ruthless Lawbringer, which reduced this deck's average converted mana cost from 3.77 to 3.76, because, as great as the former card was, the newer card better fits the theme of this deck.
DemonDragonJ on Should I Put Ruthless Lawbringer …
1 month ago
I am contemplating putting Ruthless Lawbringer into these two EDH decks of mine, because of its obvious synergy with the themes of those decks, but I am not certain of what card I should remove to make room for it; Mortify is the most obvious choice, due to it having the same mana cost as the lawbringer, but I would like to ask everyone here for their advice, on this matter.
What does everyone else say about this? Should I put Ruthless Lawbringer into those two decks of mine?
YamishiTheWickedOne on
What is a Man? (a hyper aggro Edgar Markov EDH)
2 months ago
@Vessiliana I think you're right in that Vampire Socialite is probably the easiest thing to cut from my current list, but my one hangup is I'd almost certainly replace her with a higher costed card. Things on my mind are at this point: Baron Bertram Graywater, Ruthless Lawbringer, Vein Ripper, Bolas's Citadel, and Twilight Prophet. I wanna keep my mana curve as low as possible even with all the ramp for the sake of consistency.
Decided I want to keep Vito in this build. My last game by turn 5 I had Vito, Vraan, Bloodletter, Sanctum Seeker, Cordial and Master of Dark Rites in play. That was a fun one.
YamishiTheWickedOne on
What is a Man? (a hyper aggro Edgar Markov EDH)
2 months ago
@Vessiliana Florian does honestly feel like an obvious cut, but it bugs me to have so little red in this deck. Also, the replacement options are all higher mana. The things I want to include are Baron Bertram Graywater, Vein Ripper, Ruthless Lawbringer, Twilight Prophet, or Drana and Linvala.
YamishiTheWickedOne on
Edgar Markov: Dark Ambitions
3 months ago
Baron Bertram Graywater and Ruthless Lawbringer look good.
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