The Dalek Emperor
Legendary Artifact Creature — Dalek
Affinity for Daleks (This spell costs 
less to cast for each Dalek you control.)
Other Daleks you control have haste.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player sacrifices a creature of their choice, or you create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.
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- Set
- Doctor Who (WHO #725)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 7
- Released
- 2023-10-13
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- EDHREC rank
- #9,456
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Exterminate!
- Genesis of the Daleks
- Dalek Squadron
- Dalek Drone
- Doomsday Confluence
- Adaptive Automaton
- Bloodline Pretender
- Universal Automaton
- Metallic Mimic
- Taurean Mauler
- Changeling Outcast
- Cyberman Patrol
- Maskwood Nexus
- Cybermen Squadron
- Graveshifter
- Delete
- Shared Animosity
- Labyrinth Raptor
- Steel Overseer
- Roaming Throne
- Cryptothrall
- Venomous Changeling
- Changeling Wayfinder
- Foundry Inspector
- Three Tree Mascot
- Their Name Is Death
- Sonorous Howlbonder
- Strionic Resonator
- Patchwork Banner
- Firdoch Core
- Skeletal Changeling
- Helm of the Host
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Path of Ancestry
- Kindred Dominance
- Black Market Connections
- Barkform Harvester
- J. Jonah Jameson
- Fire-Belly Changeling
- This Is How It Ends
- Great Train Heist
- Three Tree City
- Moonglove Changeling
- Chief of the Foundry
- Relentless Assault
- Aggravated Assault
- Collective Inferno
- The Master, Multiplied
- Birthing Boughs
- Ghostly Changeling
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Mountain
- Dalek Squadron
- Exterminate!
- Dalek Drone
- Genesis of the Daleks
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Arcane Signet
- Doomsday Confluence
- Adaptive Automaton
- Bloodline Pretender
- Metallic Mimic
- Universal Automaton
- Taurean Mauler
- Changeling Outcast
- Dragonskull Summit
- Maskwood Nexus
- Cyberman Patrol
- Smoldering Marsh
- Graveshifter
- Cybermen Squadron
- Shared Animosity
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Delete
- Terminate
- Roaming Throne
- Rakdos Signet
- Labyrinth Raptor
- Haunted Ridge
- Steel Overseer
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Chaos Warp
- Cryptothrall
- Venomous Changeling
- Black Market Connections
- Foundry Inspector
- Changeling Wayfinder
- Foreboding Ruins
- Path of Ancestry
- Lightning Greaves
- Patchwork Banner
- Their Name Is Death
- Three Tree Mascot
- Strionic Resonator
- Sonorous Howlbonder
- Dark Ritual
- Firdoch Core
- Phyrexian Arena
- Feed the Swarm
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-10-13
A player facing a villainous choice can always choose either option, even if one or both of the options are impossible. For example, if one of the options is to sacrifice a creature, a player who controls no creatures can still choose that option.
- 2023-10-13
If a spell or ability requires multiple players to face a villainous choice, the result is a little different from other effects in Magic. In that case, the first player in turn order makes their choice and the action for that choice is performed before the next player makes their choice. Then each of the remaining players repeat this process in turn order.
- 2023-10-13
When a player faces a villainous choice, they first choose one of the two options, then all actions in the chosen option are performed.