Boilerbilges Ripper
Creature — Human Assassin
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature or enchantment. When you do, this creature deals 2 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #20763
Boilerbilges Ripper enters as a 2/2 that grows whenever an artifact enters your battlefield, which in the right shell turns every mana rock and trinket into a free pump effect. The cost is that outside artifact-heavy decks it's an undersized vanilla creature, so the card earns its slot in exactly one archetype.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Boilerbilges Ripper belongs in artifact-go-wide or artifact-storm builds where the board floods with artifacts each turn cycle and the Ripper scales past fair blockers without spending additional mana. In constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern it faces a crowded field of payoffs at the two- and three-drop slot that do more work on rate; Boilerbilges Ripper has to fight for a spot against threats that win the game outright rather than grow incrementally. Pauper is the one 60-card format where a repeatable, no-cost pump effect on a common-rarity body carries real weight if artifact synergies are present. Legacy and Vintage are too fast for a creature that needs setup turns to become threatening.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Boilerbilges Ripper is deep bulk — you're paying postage, not the card. Bulk commons with narrow synergy requirements rarely move off the floor, so treat this as a free inclusion in artifact decks rather than anything to acquire in volume.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.