Foot Chopper
Artifact — Equipment
When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 black Ninja creature token, then attach this Equipment to it.
Equipped creature has flying.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw cards equal to its power.
Equip 
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #14345
Foot Chopper strips a creature of its blocking ability on the turn it matters, trading a sacrifice for a clear path to the opponent's life total. In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shell headlined by Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart, that trample-enabling effect fits neatly into an aggro gameplan that wants the last few points of damage to land uncontested.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart builds around coordinated creature attacks, and Foot Chopper lets you neutralize the one blocker standing between lethal and a stalled board — the sacrifice cost is trivial when you're already generating a board wide enough to swing in multiples.
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 |
Foot Chopper is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's effectively a Commander-only card — the formats where it's legal are either too powerful (Legacy, Vintage) or too focused for a narrow evasion-granting sacrifice effect to compete. In Commander, it lives exclusively in Universes Beyond TMNT builds, where the tribal theming makes it a thematic include rather than a competitive staple. Oathbreaker is its only other realistic home, and only in a deck built around the same IP synergies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Foot Chopper is firmly bulk, which is about right for a card with a narrow tribal application. It won't appreciate unless TMNT Commander demand spikes significantly, so buy it when you need it and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.