Fodder Cannon
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 4 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #25834
Fodder Cannon lets you sacrifice a creature to deal 4 damage to any target — that's a reasonable rate, but the four-mana equip-style activation cost makes it painfully slow for anything outside a dedicated sacrifice shell. Run it only if you're already generating free creature tokens and need another outlet that doubles as reach.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fodder Cannon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through — the formats where it's legal outside EDH have faster, cheaper sacrifice outlets that make a four-mana artifact activation look glacial. In Commander, the 100-card singleton format rewards redundancy in sacrifice themes, and Fodder Cannon earns its slot specifically in token-generating decks that need another outlet rather than another payoff. The four-damage output is meaningful in a 40-life format where incremental reach matters, and hitting any target keeps it relevant past the early game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Fodder Cannon sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or out of a common box. Bulk artifacts with narrow applications rarely climb in price, so there's no urgency to stock up, but the low floor means the opportunity cost of trying it is essentially zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.