Tasigur's Cruelty
Sorcery
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
.)
Each opponent discards two cards.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #14355
Tasigur's Cruelty empties every opponent's hand for five mana — a mass discard effect that scales with the number of players and hits the table fully loaded. The cost is real: five mana is a lot to ask, and it does nothing if opponents are already hellbent, which makes Tinybones, Trinket Thief the ideal home where that condition is actively engineered.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tinybones, Trinket Thief
Tinybones, Trinket Thief drains each opponent for two life whenever someone discards, so Tasigur's Cruelty resolving into a full table is anywhere from six to twelve guaranteed damage plus cards drawn — one spell that collapses the engine's ceiling condition immediately.
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar wants repeated discard triggers to stock the exile zone and fuel its activated ability, and Tasigur's Cruelty delivers a burst of three simultaneous triggers that can unlock a chain of exiled spells in a single turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tasigur's Cruelty is a Commander card — full stop. In multiplayer, stripping three hands at once is a tempo swing that no single-opponent format replicates, and the five-mana cost is far more acceptable when the card disadvantage is spread across three opponents instead of one. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, five-mana sorceries that discard only the opponent's hand are unplayable; cheaper, faster discard suites make Tasigur's Cruelty irrelevant in those formats. Pauper is the one exception worth noting: mass hand disruption at common is rare, and a deck that can stall long enough to cast it might extract real value, though the format's aggressive tempo makes five mana a steep ask there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Tasigur's Cruelty is pure bulk — it costs nothing to slot in and nothing to lose. Bulk rares with narrow homes don't appreciate, so buy it for the effect, not the price tag.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.