Minion of Leshrac
Creature — Demon Minion
Protection from black
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 5 damage to you unless you sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If this creature deals damage to you this way, tap it.
: Destroy target creature or land.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.78
- EDHREC rank
- #23101
Minion of Leshrac puts a repeatable "destroy target creature or land" trigger on the board every upkeep — that's a wrath on legs over three turns, or a one-sided resource denial engine if you protect it. The cost is brutal: you sacrifice a creature each upkeep or the Minion kills you, which means it's a liability in any deck that can't reliably feed it. Mairsil, the Pretender sidesteps most of that downside by caging the ability without ever putting the Minion into play.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mairsil, the Pretender
Mairsil, the Pretender cages Minion of Leshrac to steal its activated destruction ability without triggering the upkeep death clause, turning a dangerous symmetrical drawback into a one-sided removal engine that fires at instant speed.
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 |
Minion of Leshrac is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees any real play is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, a five-mana 5/5 with a mandatory sacrifice clause competes against format staples that win the game faster than the Minion can grind through an opponent's board. Commander is the one environment where its repeatable land and creature destruction scales appropriately — a single resolved Minion can eliminate a player's mana base over two or three turns, which is a meaningful threat at a 100-card, multiplayer table. Oathbreaker is legal but the faster pace of that format makes the upkeep cost difficult to manage.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.78 bulk tier
At $0.78, Minion of Leshrac sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which is accurate for a card with narrow application outside of Mairsil, the Pretender shells. It's a stable bulk price — demand isn't growing fast enough to push it higher, so pick it up cheap if the deck calls for it and don't expect movement either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.