Master of Cruelties
Master of Cruelties: Creature - Demon, Ravnica Remastered. First strike, deathtouch. This creature can only attack alone. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{R}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Creature - Demon
- Colour identity
- Black and red (BR)
- Power / toughness
- 1/4
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered (RVR)
- Released
- 2024-01-12
- Collector number
- 198
- Artist
- Chase Stone
- Commander rank
- 3,421 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- First strike, Deathtouch
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About Master of Cruelties
Master of Cruelties is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare black and red creature from Ravnica Remastered (RVR), a Masters set released in January 2024. It is collector number 198 in that set, with art by Chase Stone. It costs {3}{B}{R} (three generic, one black and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It is a 1/4 creature. Its colour identity is black and red. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Dragon's Maze (2013) to Ravnica Remastered (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.12 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.12 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Master of Cruelties by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Master of Cruelties
Master of Cruelties has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1565 | Mythic | 2025 |
| Ravnica Remastered (RVR) #373 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Ravnica Remastered (RVR) #373z | Mythic | 2024 |
| Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #251 | Mythic | 2022 |
| Double Masters 2022 (2X2) #522 | Mythic | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #DGM-82 | Mythic | 2021 |
| RNA Guild Kit (GK2) #66 | Mythic | 2019 |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) #82 | Mythic | 2013 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Master of Cruelties, newest first.
- Master of Cruelties's last ability won't trigger if it attacks a planeswalker or a battle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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