Master of Cruelties Price
9 printings · 6 sets · first printed 2013
Master of Cruelties has been printed 9 times across 6 sets, first in 2013 and most recently in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Ravnica Remastered #373 at $4.55, while the most expensive is Secret Lair Drop #1565 at $15.26 — about 3× more. The median across 9 priced printings is $5.70. 1 serialized (numbered) printing is listed below but left out of the headline prices. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 9x, including dedicated reprint sets like Ravnica Remastered, Double Masters 2022.
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Every Master of Cruelties Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravnica Remastered #373 (M) Cheapest | 2024 | $4.55 | $3.70 |
| Double Masters 2022 #251 (M) | 2022 | $4.74 | $3.25 |
| RNA Guild Kit #66 (M) | 2019 | $4.99 | $2.80 |
| Ravnica Remastered #198 (M) | 2024 | $5.47 | $1.20 |
| Dragon's Maze #82 (M) | 2013 | $5.92 | $3.20 |
| The List #DGM-82 (M) | 2021 | $6.17 | $3.70 |
| Double Masters 2022 #522 (M) Foil | 2022 | $14.06 | — |
| Secret Lair Drop #1565 (M) | 2025 | $15.26 | $9.75 |
| Ravnica Remastered #373z (M) Foil Serialized | 2024 | $357.50 | — |
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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.
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 9 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
6 PrecedentsIf 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.
Master of Cruelties's last ability won't trigger if it attacks a planeswalker or a battle.