Hellcarver Demon
Creature — Demon
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice all other permanents you control and discard your hand. Exile the top six cards of your library. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $6.72
- EDHREC rank
- #12922
Hellcarver Demon hits the table as a 6/6 flying trampler that, when it connects, exiles the top six cards of your library and casts them all for free — the catch is you discard your hand and sacrifice everything else you control first. In Doomsday piles and reanimator shells that stack the top of their library, that cost is barely a cost; everywhere else, it's a glass cannon that folds to a single chump blocker. The Beamtown Bullies makes this the cleanest free-cast engine in black.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies donates Hellcarver Demon to an opponent at end of turn, then that player attacks with it — triggering the exile-and-cast ability on someone else's permanents and hand, while the Bullies player reaps the chaos. It's the premier target for the Bullies engine precisely because the punishment for attacking is so catastrophic for whoever is wielding it.
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One gifts Hellcarver Demon to an opponent as a cursed present, loading them up with a card-disadvantage engine they're forced to live with. The opponent either attacks into their own doom or sits on a 6/6 that clogs their board, and Jon Irenicus, Shattered One draws a card either way.
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 |
Hellcarver Demon is a Commander card through and through — the seven-mana cost and the all-or-nothing trigger are scaled for a 40-life, multiplayer game where one hit can end things. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but purely unplayable; no competitive deck wants to pay seven for a creature that requires it to connect before doing anything. Commander is where it lives, specifically in reanimator and chaos-donation strategies where the downside is engineered away or weaponized against opponents. Oathbreaker is also legal, but the 20-life format makes a seven-drop with a conditional trigger much harder to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Hellcarver DemonDoomsdayBarren GloryNexus of FateTormented Thoughts
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There's no clean budget swap that replicates Hellcarver Demon's specific gift-or-punish trigger, but Demonic Pact fills a similar role in donation decks — it's under $1 and creates the same "cursed object" dynamic that Jon Irenicus and The Beamtown Bullies exploit. If the goal is raw chaos from combat triggers rather than donation, Etali, Primal Conqueror is the obvious comparison, though it runs significantly more expensive and operates on a fundamentally different axis.
Price Context
Current price
$6.72 mid tier
At $6.72, Hellcarver Demon sits in the mid tier — more than a bulk rare, less than a format staple. It's a niche card with a loyal home in Beamtown Bullies lists, which keeps a floor under the price, but don't expect it to climb; the demand ceiling is narrow.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.