Mardu Heart-Piercer
Creature — Human Archer
Raid — When this creature enters, if you attacked this turn, this creature deals 2 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #27164
Mardu Heart-Piercer enters and deals 2 damage to any target — a Shock stapled to a 2/3 body for four mana. That rate is too slow for most formats where cheaper, cleaner options exist.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mardu Heart-Piercer is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Commander, the enter-the-battlefield trigger has token-doubler upside with blink and flicker engines, but four mana for a 2/3 and 2 damage is a weak rate against 40-life opponents. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, cheaper bodies with better immediate impact make Mardu Heart-Piercer a non-starter. Oathbreaker is the one context where a repeatable blink loop could squeeze value out of it, but even there the damage ceiling is low.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Mardu Heart-Piercer sits firmly in bulk territory — a penny-bin pickup with no realistic path to price appreciation. Run it if you need a budget body with an ETB damage trigger and can't find anything better, but the opportunity cost is the slot itself.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.