Bone Splinters
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #5772
Bone Splinters trades one of your creatures to unconditionally destroy any creature on the board — at one mana, that's an efficient rate for black removal. The catch is the sacrifice cost, which in most decks is a liability, but in sacrifice-payoff builds like Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim it's a feature, not a bug.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim drains opponents on every creature death, so the sacrifice Bone Splinters demands generates a life-loss trigger while also clearing a threat — the removal spell and the engine fuel are the same action.
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 Pauper, Bone Splinters is a real card — one-mana removal is scarce at common, and sacrifice-based black decks use it alongside recursive creatures to make the cost nearly free. Modern and Pioneer have enough cheap unconditional removal at instant speed that sorcery-speed with a built-in sacrifice cost rarely makes the cut outside dedicated sacrifice shells. In Commander, Bone Splinters earns its slot only in decks that already want to sacrifice creatures for value; in a generic black deck, you're giving up card parity to remove one threat at sorcery speed, and that's a losing trade at a 100-card table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Bone Splinters is deep bulk — multiple printings have driven the price as low as it goes. It will hold that floor indefinitely; this is a card you pick out of a bulk bin, not one you track.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.