Deathleaper, Terror Weapon
Legendary Creature — Tyranid
Flash
Haste
Flesh Hooks — Creatures you control that entered this turn have double strike.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10889
Deathleaper, Terror Weapon hits the board as a hasted, evasive threat that punishes opponents for holding up interaction — every counter placed on it makes the next threat even harder to answer. The cost is real: it demands a deck built around counters or Tyranid synergies to extract full value, and it underperforms in shells that can't capitalize on its scaling. Run it with The Swarmlord and it's an engine piece; anywhere else, scrutinize your curve first.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord is the natural home — Deathleaper, Terror Weapon enters swinging with haste, immediately triggers The Swarmlord's counter-distribution, and every subsequent attack compounds the board state by spreading counters further across your Tyranid forces.
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash wants hasted creatures to generate Treasure on attack, and Deathleaper, Terror Weapon delivers that immediately while also growing into a formidable recurring threat — the combination turns every combat step into both a mana-positive and pressure-positive event.
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 |
Commander is the correct home for Deathleaper, Terror Weapon — 100-card singleton slows the game down enough that its cumulative counter-scaling and evasion become genuinely threatening over multiple turns. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, the competition at three mana is brutal and the Tyranid synergy context simply doesn't exist, so it never sees play there. Oathbreaker is a reasonable fit if you're running a +1/+1 counters signature spell package. Outside those formats, Deathleaper, Terror Weapon is a Commander-only conversation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed for Deathleaper, Terror Weapon, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its niche application in Tyranid and counters-matter Commander builds, it's worth picking up if the price is low — demand outside those archetypes is limited.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Swarmlord
- Ognis, the Dragon's Lash
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.