Falkenrath Perforator
Creature — Vampire
Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to defending player.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20102
Falkenrath Perforator enters as a 1/1 for one red mana and pings for 1 damage whenever you sacrifice a blood token — ceiling is real in dedicated sacrifice or blood-token shells, floor is a vanilla 1/1 that does nothing. It earns its slot only if your deck is generating blood tokens at volume; otherwise cut it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Falkenrath Perforator is a niche roleplayer in Vampire or sacrifice-matters builds that already lean on blood tokens — outside that context it's too narrow to justify a slot. Pauper is its best home: one-mana creatures with repeatable damage triggers are genuinely playable, and a blood-token shell there can accumulate enough fodder to make the pings meaningful. In Modern and Pioneer it competes against a deeper field of one-drops and rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated Vampire tribal. Legacy and Vintage have no interest.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Falkenrath Perforator is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Don't expect movement; supply is abundant and demand is narrow enough that this stays a bulk rare indefinitely.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.