Capital Punishment

Mana cost: {4}{B}{B}
Type: Sorcery
Set: Conspiracy: Take the Crown #40 (rare)
Price: $5.81 USD

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.

Capital Punishment has 1 printing, first in Conspiracy: Take the Crown (2016). EDHREC ranks it #9,569 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tivit, Seller of Secrets decks (4,043 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.

Legality

commander: legal
legacy: legal
vintage: legal
pauper: not legal
modern: not legal
pioneer: not legal
standard: not legal
brawl: not legal

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Rulings

2016-08-23: If a creature with an enters-the-battlefield council’s dilemma ability leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, players can still vote for any option that would put +1/+1 counters on that creature, even though—or perhaps especially because—those votes won’t generate an effect.
2016-08-23: 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.
2016-08-23: 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.
2016-08-23: 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.
2016-08-23: You must vote for one of the available options. You can’t abstain.
2016-08-23: 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.
2016-08-23: No player votes until the spell or ability resolves. Any responses to that spell or ability must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
2016-08-23: Players can’t do anything between voting and finishing the resolution of the spell or ability that included the vote.
2016-08-23: Because the votes are made in turn order, each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.

Printings

Conspiracy: Take the Crown #40