Blighted Shaman
Creature — Human Cleric Shaman
, Sacrifice a Swamp: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn., Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Classic Sixth Edition
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #27499
Blighted Shaman turns each Swamp sacrifice into a free -1/-1 counter on any creature, giving black aristocrats decks a repeatable, instant-speed answer stapled to their sacrifice engine. The cost is real — you need both a Swamp and a creature to sacrifice — but in the right shell, those are features, not costs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Blighted Shaman is a Commander card through and through — its power scales with the number of Swamps you control and the density of your sacrifice outlets, both of which mono-black and black-heavy aristocrats decks optimize naturally. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the effect is far too slow and conditional to compete with what those formats offer at two mana. Commander is where Blighted Shaman earns its slot, particularly in mono-black or Golgari sacrifice builds that already flood the board with tokens and basic Swamps.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Blighted Shaman is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bargain bin without thinking twice. The price reflects its narrow application, but in the decks that actually want it, the value-per-dollar is hard to beat.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.