Ruthless Sniper

set	min	mtgo
-	1.39	0.03 tix

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Name	Ruthless Sniper
Type	Creature — human archer
Description	Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay . If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Artist	Sara Winters
Set	Amonkhet Remastered #121
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Ruthless Sniper

Ruthless Sniper, Creature — human archer, designed by Sara Winters first released in Apr, 2017 in the set Amonkhet and was printed exactly in 4 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 1.39.

Ruthless Sniper would be a great addition to a black deck focused on cycling and discarding cards, especially in a deck that aims to control the board by weakening opponents' creatures with -1/-1 counters. While Ruthless Sniper is a solid choice for this strategy, other cards like Archfiend of Ifnir or Horror of the Broken Lands may offer more impactful effects in a cycling-themed deck, depending on the overall game plan. However, Ruthless Sniper could still see play in the right deck as a versatile tool for creature control and synergy with cycling mechanics.

Rules

04/18/17

An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.

04/18/17

If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.

04/18/17

While resolving Ruthless Sniper’s triggered ability, you can’t pay multiple times to put more counters on creatures.

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