Junkyo Bell
Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have target creature you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. If you do, sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.44
- EDHREC rank
- #21736
Junkyo Bell turns a creature's power directly into a damage number — tap it, deal damage equal to that creature's power to any target, then the creature dies. The cost is steep: you're sacrificing the creature, so this only earns its slot in decks that either want creatures dead or field tokens they don't mind trading.
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 |
Junkyo Bell is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Constructed formats have never given it a second look — sacrifice outlets with this much overhead don't clear the efficiency bar when removal is cheaper and cleaner. Commander is the only format where it has a real home, specifically in aristocrats and token strategies where killing your own creatures is part of the plan and a single big-power creature can close the game or remove a blocker before it dies anyway. Oathbreaker is the other viable home, for the same reasons at a smaller table scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.44 bulk tier
At $0.44, Junkyo Bell sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of card you pick up in a trade binder rather than order specifically. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb, but for the decks that want it, the cost to include is essentially nothing.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.