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An absolutely brutal card, whose stock has kept on increasing with time. More than once I've been going last in a free-for-all multiplayer game, watched everyone else lay their key early one drops, then on my own turn played a Swamp, turned it sideways, and killed five or six creatures for one mana. That's not actually a great tactical play despite the massive card advantage (you're effectively nullling your own first turn to null everyone else's too, meaning net profit of zero and making yourself the early target into the bargain), but that's just a particularly funny situation. It has many other greater applications too.

This Card Is Great Against Light Creature decks Like Swans And Pluemveils But I Will Say In Some Situatuons Cruel Edict Is Much Better. Great Art By The Way Carl Is A Beast.

This is an excellent creature kill card. It can even kill creatures with protection from black / shroud! 5/5

Reprint it to zendikar please :)

An aesthetically perfect card!

wow this card is ownage

Lately my friends have become rather obsessed with platinum angel, platinum emperion, darksteel forge and darksteel reactor. Basically they are all trying to make decks that set them up so they can't lose, then make their artifacts indestructible, and then wait till they can win with darksteel reactor.

This is by far the most devious response to a third-turn tinker into platinum angel. Especially when you have something like bloodghast or reassembling skeleton out. And it gets even more devious if you have a nether traitor in your graveyard while one of the other two guys mentioned gets sacrificed. That actually happened to me- I had a blood ghast, nether traitor and jinxed idol out. I sacrificed nether traitor to hand off the idol to my opponent, they took 4 from the idol (they a paradox haze to boost their reactor), tinkered into the angel (with no other creatures out) and ended their turn with a stupid grin because they already had the forge out. I untapped, played innocent blood, sacrificed bloodghast, returned nether traitor, then played a land and returned bloodghast! Their expression was priceless!

This card was one of my favorites out of odyssey way back when, and it still among my favorites today. It is just so inexpensive! And it's black, so if you d end sacrificing a creature, it's going to come back. And it can kill those pesky beasties with shroud or pro black or indestructibility- provided nothing else is out.

The most elegant edict in the game. Just {B} to kill something(s).

I used to run as many as I could in my old mono-black deck. Everybody hated it.

Except for me. 5/5 for Innocent Blood.

i use it to gain tempo in my mono-black mid range deck..the gate!

This should be reprinted. Great card indeed.

Combos with Grave Pact or even Mindslicer, and is a great way to off your Abyssal Persecutor.