Child of Thorns
Creature — Spirit
Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27320
Child of Thorns is a one-mana 1/1 that sacrifices itself to give a creature +1/+1 until end of turn — a marginal combat trick that trades a body for a pump that rarely changes the math enough to matter. It sees play almost exclusively as a sacrifice fodder piece in Pauper or token-heavy Commander shells, not as a standalone card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Child of Thorns is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Pauper, where cheap sacrifice outlets and token synergies make even modest bodies relevant. In Commander, it's too low-impact for 100-card singleton — one +1/+1 on one creature rarely changes a game at that scale, and a 1/1 with no other text doesn't pull its weight in a 99. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful one-drops, so Child of Thorns doesn't appear in competitive lists there either.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Child of Thorns is deep bulk — expect to find it in a dollar box or get it thrown in with a trade. There's no pressure driver to push that price up, so it stays a bulk common indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.