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Fleshtaker

Creature — Human Assassin

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Price
$0.22
EDHREC rank
#9122
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Fleshtaker card art
Fleshtaker converts any sacrifice into immediate board advantage — scry 1 and 1 life per creature sacrificed means it pulls double duty as a filter engine and a cushion against life-loss synergies. The two-mana cost is low enough that it competes for the slot with Warren Soultrader, but Fleshtaker wins in any list where the scry matters more than the mana generation — and it pairs devastatingly with Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, where every assassination trigger feeds the sacrifice loop.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

24.7% of decks · synergy 0.24

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's assassination counters turn enemy creatures into resources, and Fleshtaker turns those resources into scry and life — the two cards form a self-sustaining loop that keeps Altaïr's controller ahead on cards and board state simultaneously.

02
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

25.5% of decks · synergy 0.23

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim drains opponents whenever a creature enters or dies, so Fleshtaker's life gain triggers stack directly on top of Elas il-Kor's death drain, compressing both halves of the engine into the same sacrifice outlet.

03
Silvar, Devourer of the FreeTrynn, Champion of Freedom

Silvar, Devourer of the Free // Trynn, Champion of Freedom

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.21

Silvar, Devourer of the Free wants a steady stream of Humans to sacrifice for indestructibility counters, and Fleshtaker converts each Human fed to Silvar into a scry and a life — Trynn, Champion of Freedom keeps supplying the fodder, Fleshtaker keeps smoothing the draws.

04
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

11.3% of decks · synergy 0.09

Liesa, Forgotten Archangel returns your non-token creatures to hand when they die, giving Fleshtaker a repeatable sacrifice loop — sacrifice, scry, get the creature back, repeat — that turns every death into incremental card quality without ever running out of fuel.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Fleshtaker is a reliable two-drop for any Orzhov or Mardu sacrifice deck — the scry staples it to every list that generates consistent death triggers, and the life gain has real text when opponents are draining or burning you out. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes in aristocrats shells where the body matters as much as the effect: a 2/2 for two is acceptable rate, and the activated sacrifice ability means it doubles as a removal-resilient outlet. Legacy doesn't need it — faster engines exist — but it's legal and playable in budget builds. Fleshtaker is also fully legal in Oathbreaker, where its low mana cost makes it an easy include in any black-white value shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.22 bulk tier

At $0.22, Fleshtaker is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought. Bulk rares with this density of synergy rarely spike hard, but the price reflects print supply more than power level, so the floor is already the floor.

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