Sacrifice Removal
Removal that makes opponents choose and sacrifice their own permanents rather than targeting and destroying directly, which slips past hexproof, shroud, ward, and indestructibility. Diabolic Edict and Cruel Edict force a target opponent to sacrifice a creature; Fleshbag Marauder and Plaguecrafter trigger an each-player sacrifice on entry; Grave Pact and Smallpox punish the whole table at once. Distinct from Spot Removal, which picks a specific permanent and destroys or exiles it directly, this set never aims at one creature, so opponents decide what to lose. Self-sacrifice paid as a cost for value lives elsewhere; here the sacrifice is imposed on opponents as the removal effect.
Also known as
- edict
- forced sacrifice
- sacrifice effect
- sac removal
- make them sacrifice
- edict effect
- opponent sacrifice