Professional Face-Breaker is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Complete guide

Professional Face-Breaker is a high-octane engine for aggressive red decks, turning your successful attacks into a hoard of riches and extra card advantage. By rewarding you for connecting with your opponents, this Human Warrior ensures that your momentum never slows down as long as you have treasures to spend. Whether you need mana or more spells, this card provides the flexibility to keep the pressure on.

Generating and Spending Riches

Professional Face-Breaker has two distinct abilities that work in harmony. First, it features a triggered ability that creates a Treasure token whenever one or more of your creatures deal combat damage to a player. This triggers once per player dealt damage; if you attack two different players and both are hit, you create two Treasures. Second, it offers an activated ability that allows you to sacrifice any Treasure—not just ones it created—to exile the top card of your library. You can play that card until the end of the current turn.

Timing and Playing Exiled Cards

When you use the sacrifice ability, you must follow all normal timing rules for the exiled card. If you exile a land, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty, and only if you have a land drop available. If you exile a creature or sorcery, you can only cast it during your main phase. The ability allows you to 'play' the card, which is a broad term encompassing both casting spells and playing lands.

Common Pitfalls

A common mistake is assuming you get a Treasure for every single creature that hits a player. The card specifically says 'one or more,' meaning if five creatures hit the same player simultaneously, you only get one Treasure. Another mistake is forgetting that the exile effect lasts only until the end of the turn. If you sacrifice a Treasure during your opponent's end step, you will likely lose access to that card before you can play it, unless it has Flash.

Interaction examples

Doubling the Payout

Roaming Throne

If Roaming Throne enters the battlefield naming 'Human' or 'Warrior', its ability will apply to Professional Face-Breaker. When your creatures deal combat damage to a player, the triggered ability will trigger an additional time because of the Throne. Instead of one Treasure token, you will create two for each player hit.

Finding Your Land Drops

Treasure

During your first main phase, you sacrifice a Treasure token using the Face-Breaker's ability. You exile the top card of your library, which happens to be a land. Because the ability says you may 'play' that card, you can play that land as your land drop for the turn, provided you haven't already played one.

Trading Golems for Value

Solemn Simulacrum

You attack with both Professional Face-Breaker and Solemn Simulacrum. Professional Face-Breaker has Menace, making it harder to block. If either (or both) deal combat damage to the opponent, you create a Treasure. If the Solemn Simulacrum is blocked and dies, you draw a card from its own trigger, and you can then use the Treasure generated by the Face-Breaker to exile another card, effectively seeing two new cards that turn.

Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.