Flesh Carver
Creature — Human Wizard
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
When this creature dies, create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is this creature's power.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2014
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #19436
Flesh Carver earns its slot by threatening a sacrifice every turn while leaving behind a growing body that trades up in combat. The cost is real — three mana for a 2/2 with no immediate board impact means it gets blown out by a removal spell before you ever sacrifice anything.
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 |
In Commander, Flesh Carver fits cleanly into black sacrifice and aristocrats strategies — the repeatable forced-sacrifice threat is relevant in a multiplayer game where opponents always have creatures worth killing, and the +1/+1 counter accumulation means it scales through a long game. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically accurate but practically irrelevant; those formats have no interest in a three-mana 2/2 with a slow clock when faster sacrifice payoffs exist. Flesh Carver is a Commander card through and through, and even there it belongs specifically in decks that can exploit both sides of its text — the sacrifice demand and the growing body — rather than as a generic black include.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Flesh Carver is deep bulk, and that price is stable — it sees enough casual Commander play to keep it from hitting true bulk-bin territory, but not enough demand to push it higher. Pick it up without a second thought if it fits the slot; you won't find a cheaper way to get a repeatable sacrifice threat on a growing body.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.