Its also a natural three-for-one, giving you many rectangles for a 6 mana value investment
Decklist: 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
First of all, there is a lack of effective card advantage engines available to Dimir-colored control decks, which makes it hard to play control decks in the first place, but also makes it much more costly to be stuck with the Excruciator in hand, Secondly, it is not leveraging one of the best strengths of the Excruciator, which is that it presents multiple angles of attack
Then you can swap four life for a card
If you can couple this card with any artifact sacrifice effect, you can shut your opponents out of their mana ramp completely until theyre able to remove the Goblin Rogue
Kinjallis Caller Once again, Kinjallis Caller technically shouldnt be anywhere near this list