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Black Carriage

Creature — Horse

Trample
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Sacrifice a creature: Untap this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Homelands
Price
$0.76
EDHREC rank
#28643
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Black Carriage card art
Black Carriage hits the board as a 4/4 trampler for five mana — respectable stats — but the trample only activates when you sacrifice a creature during your upkeep, which means running it without a sacrifice outlet baked into your gameplan is a liability. Pair it with Elemental Mastery and the engine nearly runs itself; without that kind of token fodder, it's a vanilla 4/4 waiting to brick.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Black Carriage is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and realistically that's where the conversation ends — it sees no play in any competitive 60-card format. In Commander it finds a niche in sacrifice-matters decks that can reliably feed its upkeep trigger, turning a conditional beater into a repeatable trampler. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but would never run it; the power ceiling is simply too low for those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case: niche at best, only worth slotting if your signature spell generates the sacrifice fodder Black Carriage demands.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

10 decks
Black CarriagePresence of Gond

Black CarriagePresence of Gond

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.76 bulk tier

At $0.76, Black Carriage sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to grab without hesitation if the deck wants it. Don't expect the price to move; it's a narrow card with a small audience, and bulk rares tend to stay bulk.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.