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Master of Cruelties

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9 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Master of Cruelties, Secret Lair Drop printing
Secret Lair Drop SLD · No. 1565 2025-03-24

Card text

{3}{B}{R}
Creature — Demon
First strike, deathtouch This creature can only attack alone. Whenever this creature attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. This creature assigns no combat damage this combat.
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There is no greater pain than a love that can never be.
EDHREC rank #3542 Mythic Not on the Reserved List
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The 9 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ∅ Not legal
Historic ∅ Not legal
Timeless ∅ Not legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ∅ Not legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

6 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

If Master of Cruelties attacks alone, another creature entering the battlefield attacking will have no effect on it. Master of Cruelties continues to be an attacking creature. The other attacking creature will assign combat damage normally, regardless of whether Master of Cruelties's last ability triggers.

2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast

For a player's life total to become 1, what actually happens is that the player loses (or in some rare cases, gains) the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the player's life total is 4 when the last ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 3 life. Other effects that interact with life loss (or gain) will interact with this effect accordingly.

2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast

Assigning no combat damage isn't the same as preventing that damage. Effects that make damage unpreventable will have no effect if no combat damage can be assigned.

2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast

Master of Cruelties isn't forced to attack, but if it does, it must do so alone. If you control another creature with an ability that says it must attack if able, that creature must attack and Master of Cruelties won't be able to.

2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast

An ability that triggers when something "attacks and isn't blocked" triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step.

2013-04-15 · Wizards of the Coast

Master of Cruelties's last ability won't trigger if it attacks a planeswalker or a battle.

2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Master of Cruelties, Ravnica Remastered printing
Ravnica Remastered
RVR · #373z
Mythic
∅ No QC price
Master of Cruelties, Double Masters 2022 printing
Double Masters 2022
2X2 · #522
Mythic
∅ No QC price
Obsidian Games · Foil Etched
Master of Cruelties, RNA Guild Kit printing
RNA Guild Kit
GK2 · #66
Mythic
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Bootown's Games and Hobbies · Condition HP