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Cleaving Reaper

Creature — Angel Berserker

Flying, trample
Pay 3 life: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you had an Angel or Berserker enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Kaldheim Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#19091
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Cleaving Reaper card art
Cleaving Reaper turns every creature death into a 4/4 flying threat, and in any deck that kills creatures repeatedly it snowballs fast. The four-mana body is acceptable, but the real cost is that it needs a steady stream of deaths to matter — pair it with Feast of Sanity effects or sacrifice engines and it earns its slot; in creature-light pods it's a blank.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Cleaving Reaper lives — multiplayer tables generate enough creature deaths incidentally that the Reaper can produce multiple tokens without any deliberate setup, and the longer the game runs the more value it accumulates. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern or Legacy, four mana for a do-nothing-on-entry threat is too slow against interactive decks, and the token payoff rarely survives to matter. Pioneer is similarly hostile territory. Cleaving Reaper is a Commander card through and through: it rewards the format's longer game arcs and high creature density.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Cleaving Reaper isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rates. Given its niche-but-real Commander appeal, it's worth picking up as a casual inclusion whenever the price is in impulse-buy range.

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