Falkenrath Torturer
Creature — Vampire
Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #20456
Falkenrath Torturer turns sacrifice fodder into a growing flying threat — each creature you feed it adds a +1/+1 counter and, if that creature was a Human, grants flying permanently. The cost is real: a three-mana 1/1 with no immediate impact is a liability in any table where speed matters.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Falkenrath Torturer is a niche roleplayer in dedicated vampire or sacrifice aristocrats builds — it does real work when you have consistent token generation, but it competes with stronger three-drops and rarely makes the cut outside tribal shells. In Pauper, the commons environment is kinder to incremental threats, and a flying blocker that grows over time has more relevance in a format where evasion is harder to come by. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Falkenrath Torturer does nothing on the axis those formats care about. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in practice — playable in the right pod, ignorable everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Falkenrath Torturer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. It holds no financial value and never will, but that also means there's zero barrier to picking up a copy if the deck calls for it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.