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Cruel Edict
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ninth Edition9ED · #121★
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- ★ 0.34 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Michael Sutfin
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-07-29
Flavour text
"No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, / Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— / The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells." —Wilfred Owen, "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
