Tyrant's Choice
Sorcery
Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conspiracy
- Price
- $1.77
- EDHREC rank
- #10432
Tyrant's Choice forces every opponent to either lose 4 life or sacrifice a creature — and in a four-player game, that's a guaranteed 12 life drain or a board-wide sacrifice trigger for one black mana. In Tivit, Seller of Secrets decks specifically, the vote mechanic triggers Tivit's ability, making this a two-for-one at instant speed.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
Tivit, Seller of Secrets runs Tyrant's Choice because every vote spell triggers Tivit's ability to create Treasure and Clue tokens — so even if opponents pick the 'safe' option, you're drawing cards and generating mana while they lose life or sacrifice creatures.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tyrant's Choice punches well above its mana cost — one black mana affecting all three opponents simultaneously makes it efficient removal, life drain, and vote-payoff trigger in one. Pauper is where it also sees genuine play, filling the role of cheap, flexible black disruption in creature-heavy metas. Legacy and Vintage have the card available but rarely want it; those formats move too fast and at too high a power level for a symmetrical-ish political effect to matter. Outside those four, Tyrant's Choice is simply not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.77 cheap tier
At $1.77, Tyrant's Choice sits in the sweet spot where it's cheap enough to include speculatively but not so cheap it feels disposable — it earns its slot in any vote-matters build. The price is stable; it's a niche card with a dedicated home rather than a staple with broad demand, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.