Heartless Act
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #366 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.90 USD
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.
Heartless Act has 5 printings, first in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (2020). EDHREC ranks it #4,788 among Commander cards. It appears most in Fire Lord Azula decks (4,348 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Heartless Act most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Fire Lord Azula: 4,348 decks
- Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements: 1,262 decks
- Ozai, the Phoenix King: 1,231 decks
- Toshiro Umezawa: 625 decks
- The Beamtown Bullies: 580 decks
- Gisa, the Hellraiser: 471 decks
- Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast: 447 decks
- Kraven the Hunter: 400 decks
Often played with Heartless Act
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. You may choose counters of different kinds.
- : If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can't remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn't resolve. Similarly, if you choose the second mode and the creature loses its counters in response, you can't destroy it instead.
- : If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. You may choose counters of different kinds.
- : If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can't remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn't resolve. Similarly, if you choose the second mode and the creature loses its counters in response, you can't destroy it instead.