Capital Punishment
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SetCN2
Collector #40
Released2016-08-26
Rarityrare
ArtistLake Hurwitz
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Capital Punishment

RareColour IDMV 6
Sorcery
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for death or taxes. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each death vote and discards a card for each taxes vote.
Keywords
Council's dilemma
Card capabilities
DiscardSorcery
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (9)
wotc23 Aug 2016
Each opponent chooses an appropriate number of creatures to sacrifice in turn order, then all of those creatures are sacrificed simultaneously. After that is complete, each opponent sets aside an appropriate number of cards to discard in turn order, then all cards are revealed and discarded simultaneously.
wotc23 Aug 2016
If an opponent controls fewer creatures or has fewer cards in hand than the number of appropriate votes, all those creatures are sacrificed or all those cards are discarded, as applicable.
wotc23 Aug 2016
The effects of each council’s dilemma ability happen in the stated order. First the vote occurs, then the first effect, and finally the second effect.
wotc23 Aug 2016
Unlike the will of the council cards from the original Conspiracy set, where a majority of votes determined what happened, each vote made for a council’s dilemma card adds to the ultimate effect.
wotc23 Aug 2016
Because the votes are made in turn order, each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
wotc23 Aug 2016
You must vote for one of the available options. You can’t abstain.