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Archon of Cruelty 
Creature — Archon
Oracle Text
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Archon of Cruelty, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy | 21 | 2.4 | 304 | 1.4 |
| Modern | 23 | 3.3 | 142 | 3.6 |
| Duel Commander | 1 | 1 | 45 | 1 |
| Vintage | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare
- Mana value
- 8
- Collector #
- 371
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Archon of Cruelty
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered
- 1 Grief
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Griselbrand
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
- 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Astral Dragon
- 1 Sundering Titan
- 1 Summon: Bahamut
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Lively Dirge
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Stock Up
- 1 Lórien Revealed
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (16)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (38)
- 1 Agna Qel'a
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 River of Tears
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Grief
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Priest of Fell Rites
Sorceries (15)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Adarkar Wastes
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tomb Fortress
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Chart a Course
- 1 Buried Alive
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Show and Tell
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Bone Shards
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (17)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Svyelunite Temple
- 10 Swamp
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (24)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (15)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (15)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (11)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (19)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Grief
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Harvester of Misery
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Quantum Riddler
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Magister of Worth
- 1 Ashen Rider
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Angel of the Ruins
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Astral Dragon
- 1 Summon: Bahamut
- 1 Psychic Frog
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
