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Faceless Butcher

Creature — Nightmare Horror

When this creature enters, exile another target creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
special
Set
Time Spiral Timeshifted
Price
$0.23
EDHREC rank
#16391
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Faceless Butcher card art
Faceless Butcher exiles a creature when it enters and returns that creature when it leaves — solid tempo removal stapled to a body, with a well-known vulnerability to flicker and clone effects like Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker that can loop the trigger and exile your own creatures or opponents' entire boards. It earns its slot in combo shells but is too fragile and too slow for anything outside them.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Faceless Butcher sees virtually no competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where four-mana creatures with conditional removal get outclassed immediately. Pauper is where it occasionally surfaces, slotting into blink or reanimator shells that can abuse the enter-the-battlefield and leave-the-battlefield triggers on demand. Commander is the real home — Faceless Butcher pairs with any commander that flickers, clones, or sacrifices creatures repeatedly, turning a simple removal body into a loop engine or a way to permanently strand opposing creatures if the Butcher itself is removed at the right moment.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.23 bulk tier

At $0.23, Faceless Butcher is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not a singles binder. The price is stable at this floor; there's no meaningful demand outside niche combo lists, and a reprint would barely move the needle.

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