Demon's Herald
Creature — Human Wizard
, 
, Sacrifice a blue creature, a black creature, and a red creature: Search your library for a card named Prince of Thralls, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #27242
Demon's Herald is a narrow tribal enabler that exists almost entirely to sacrifice itself alongside two other specific demon types and tutor Rakdos, the Defiler directly onto the battlefield — a payoff that's powerful but locked behind a three-piece setup. If you're not building around that exact chain, this card has no floor and no fallback.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Demon's Herald is a Commander card — full stop. The setup cost of needing a shapeshifter, a horror, and a wizard in play simultaneously to sacrifice all three is far too clunky for Legacy or Vintage, where the mana and board presence required are better spent on nearly anything else. In Commander, the 100-card singleton format gives demon-tribal shells enough room to assemble the pieces, and a free Rakdos, the Defiler hitting the table is a legitimate threat worth engineering toward. Oathbreaker is legal but the same synergy gap applies outside a dedicated demon shell.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Demon's Herald is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box without thinking twice. It won't hold or gain value, but if the combo line is in your deck, the cost of entry is essentially zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.