Card
The Dalek Emperor
Mana cost {5}{B}{R}
Legendary Artifact Creature — Dalek 6/6
Affinity for Daleks (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Dalek you control.) Other Daleks you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player sacrifices a creature of their choice, or you create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · WHO · #120
- Cheapest printing
- €0.17
- EDHREC salt
- 0.25
- Color identity
- Black, Red
- Keywords
- Affinity
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
A player facing a villainous choice can always choose either option, even if one or both of the options are impossible. For example, if one of the options is to sacrifice a creature, a player who controls no creatures can still choose that option. - 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
When a player faces a villainous choice, they first choose one of the two options, then all actions in the chosen option are performed. - 2023-10-13 · Wizards of the Coast
If a spell or ability requires multiple players to face a villainous choice, the result is a little different from other effects in Magic. In that case, the first player in turn order makes their choice and the action for that choice is performed before the next player makes their choice. Then each of the remaining players repeat this process in turn order.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast