Blight Sickle
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Equip 
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #16865
Blight Sickle puts wither on any creature for two mana to equip, meaning every hit it deals places -1/-1 counters that stick even if the equipped creature dies. It's narrow enough that only decks built around -1/-1 counters or Infect-adjacent synergies will want it — everywhere else, it's outclassed by equipment that does more.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blight Sickle earns a slot only in decks that care about -1/-1 counters — Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician are the obvious homes, where each counter placed is a trigger, not just chip damage. In Pauper, wither is a legitimate mechanical niche and the common-legal equipment pool is shallow enough that Blight Sickle occasionally shows up in aggressive black builds looking to grind through blockers. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the rate is too slow and the effect too marginal against the format's speed. Outside of dedicated synergy shells, Blight Sickle is a bulk rare doing bulk rare things.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Blight Sickle is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy deliberately. There's no competitive demand to push the price up, so it will stay in this range unless a new commander dramatically raises the profile of wither synergies.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.