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◇ Catalog #166

Heartless Act

cmm·#166·uncommon·foil

Illus. Ryan Pancoast

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Aug '23

3 yr ago

Value

$0.27+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.28 · low $0.25

NM$0.27

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.25–$0.29modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.27low $0.04range 575.0%n 49

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #4,809 · Niche pick

Variants

Foil$0.27

Nonfoil$0.13

Gameplay

Instant

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

"It's them or us." —General Kudro

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 4

2025-10-02wotc

If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. You may choose counters of different kinds.

2025-10-02wotc

If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can't remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn't resolve. Similarly, if you choose the second mode and the creature loses its counters in response, you can't destroy it instead.

2020-04-17wotc

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.27. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.04 and $0.27 across 49 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from CMM — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #166 of *Commander Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2023 Commander Masters release.

Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{B} (2 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #4,809 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast. Rarix catalogs 890 other cards credited to this artist.