Bloodtallow Candle
Artifact
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26688
Bloodtallow Candle kills any creature or planeswalker outright — no toughness check, no protection clause — for a total of eight mana spread across two turns. That flexibility is real, but eight mana is a steep ask when unconditional removal at two or three mana exists in every color.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Bloodtallow Candle occupies the low end of the acceptable removal spectrum — it handles indestructible threats and hexproof planeswalkers that other spells can't touch, but the equip-then-sacrifice ritual costs so much mana that faster tables will have moved on before you fire it. Pauper is where it earns genuine consideration: unconditional removal at common rarity is scarce, and the two-turn setup is less punishing in a slower format. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card is legal but irrelevant — those formats have efficient interactive spells that make eight total mana laughable. Treat Bloodtallow Candle as a Commander-or-Pauper card and nothing else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Bloodtallow Candle is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. It holds that price floor comfortably; there's no competitive demand to push it up, and reprint risk is a non-issue at this level.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.