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Archon of Cruelty
Oracle Text
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Archon of Cruelty is a brutal mythic payoff that perfectly suits grindy control and reanimation-style value decks, where its enormous body and repeated trigger can bury an opponent in card and life advantage. Even without named lore, the card’s design feels like a judge of suffering: every entrance or attack forces a sacrifice, strips a card, and drains life while refilling your hand and padding your own life total. In gameplay, that means it is strongest when cheated into play early with reanimation, blink effects, or other ways to reuse enters-the-battlefield triggers; hard-casting it is still powerful, but the eight-mana cost asks for a very late game. A useful deckbuilding tip is to pair it with discard outlets, self-mill, or graveyard recursion so you can deploy it ahead of curve and protect it with removal or hand disruption. If it survives, the pressure becomes overwhelming.
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Character Background
Archon of Cruelty is a brutal mythic payoff that perfectly suits grindy control and reanimation-style value decks, where its enormous body and repeated trigger can bury an opponent in card and life advantage. Even without named lore, the card’s design feels like a judge of suffering: every entrance or attack forces a sacrifice, strips a card, and drains life while refilling your hand and padding your own life total. In gameplay, that means it is strongest when cheated into play early with reanimation, blink effects, or other ways to reuse enters-the-battlefield triggers; hard-casting it is still powerful, but the eight-mana cost asks for a very late game. A useful deckbuilding tip is to pair it with discard outlets, self-mill, or graveyard recursion so you can deploy it ahead of curve and protect it with removal or hand disruption. If it survives, the pressure becomes overwhelming.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-28 06:10:42 UTC