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◇ Catalog #143

Tyrant's Choice

DIGITAL ONLY

vma·#143·common·foil

Illus. Daarken

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jun '14

12 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #10,462 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.04

Nonfoil$0.04

Gameplay

Sorcery

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2014-05-29wotc

You must vote for one of the available options. You can't abstain.

2014-05-29wotc

Because the votes are cast in turn order, each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.

2014-05-29wotc

Players can't do anything after they finish voting but before the spell or ability that included the vote finishes resolving.

2014-05-29wotc

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from VMA — 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 #143 of *Vintage Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2014 Vintage Masters release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {1}{B} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Will of the council.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #10,462 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Daarken. Rarix catalogs 1,287 other cards credited to this artist.