This efficient card can go wide either to sacrifice lots of Rats to creatures like Redcap Gutter-Dweller, or keep those Rats for once and attack with them
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Besides being a sizable aerial threat, Archon of Cruelty has a nasty enter the battlefield trigger, causing the target opponent to sacrifice a creature, discard a card, and lose three life
The only black based decks which dont play Thoughtseize at all in Modern are highly synergistic decks like Goblins or Mill, or decks which cant afford to play it due to other restrictions like Living End
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Pollywog Prodigy can rapidly get a handful of +1/+1s on it, and at that point youll be drawing a bunch of cards