Childhood Horror
Creature — Horror
Flying
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #28263
Childhood Horror is a 4/3 flyer that grows by exiling cards from your graveyard — the bigger your bin, the bigger the threat. The cost is real: every card you exile to pump it is a card you can't recur, so it competes directly with graveyard-value engines rather than complementing them.
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 |
Childhood Horror is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but realistically it sees play nowhere competitively. In Commander, graveyard decks exist on a spectrum — self-mill builds that want to recur everything have little interest in permanently exiling their own resources, while pure reanimator shells would rather just reanimate something bigger for the same mana. Legacy and Vintage have no shortage of better five-drops with evasion. Childhood Horror is a casual Commander card at best, and even there it's a fringe inclusion.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Childhood Horror is deep bulk — the price reflects the demand, which is close to zero. It's unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction unless a new graveyard commander creates a niche for it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.