Fell Shepherd
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Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return to your hand all creature cards that were put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.
, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #24206
Fell Shepherd turns every creature death into a mass recursion engine — one activation at end of turn can refill your board from an entire game's worth of casualties. Eight mana is real, but in a token or sacrifice shell, the payoff is backbreaking enough to justify it.
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 only format where Fell Shepherd earns a slot. The graveyard accumulates over a long game, sacrifice synergies are everywhere, and eight mana is reachable — making the activated ability a genuine late-game reset button. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically legal but laughably outclassed; nobody is casting an eight-mana vanilla body with a slow activated ability when those formats end on turn two or three. Oathbreaker has the same problem: the game is too fast and the card is too slow.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Fell Shepherd is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a real effect in the right shell. Bulk rares at this price rarely move unless a new commander pushes them into the spotlight, so grab a copy cheap if the effect fits your deck and don't expect the price to do anything interesting.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.