Boneshard Slasher
Creature — Horror
Flying
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Torment
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #27689
Boneshard Slasher is a two-mana 1/1 flyer that grows into a genuine threat whenever creatures die — the kind of card that quietly ends games in sacrifice-heavy pods. The cost is that it does nothing the turn it enters and folds to any targeted removal before it gets going.
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 |
Boneshard Slasher lives almost entirely in Commander, where sacrifice synergies are abundant and the long game gives it time to accumulate counters and become relevant. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively invisible — two mana for a conditional threat with no immediate impact doesn't clear the bar in formats where speed is everything. Commander is the right home, specifically in black-based aristocrats decks where creatures are dying every turn cycle and a 1/1 flyer routinely becomes a 5/5 or larger by the midgame.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Boneshard Slasher is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable; there's no pressure driving it up, but it's also not a card anyone is hunting for, so it should stay accessible indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.