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Ceaseless Searblades

Creature — Elemental Warrior

Whenever you activate an ability of an Elemental, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#29612
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Ceaseless Searblades card art
Ceaseless Searblades turns any activated ability — including the land-creature flip on Wandering Fumarole — into a power pump, giving you a repeatable, evasion-ready threat that grows without spending extra mana. The cost is a four-mana 2/3 body that does nothing until you have a deck built around activating abilities, which means it earns its slot only in the right shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Ceaseless Searblades is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card at heart — the 100-card singleton format gives you the widest access to activated-ability engines that make the pump trigger repeatedly. In Modern and Legacy the bar for a four-mana creature is brutal, and Ceaseless Searblades doesn't threaten the board on its own, so it won't see competitive play there. Commander is where it lives, slotting into Izzet or Grixis builds that chain activated abilities every turn and want a cheap threat that scales with the engine rather than sitting inert.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Ceaseless Searblades is pure bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb unless a new commander with a strong activated-ability theme pushes it into wider circulation.

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Sources

Mentioned

  • Wandering Fumarole
  • Lavaclaw Reaches

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.