Paranoid Parish-Blade
Creature — Human Soldier
Delirium — This creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #30496
Paranoid Parish-Blade enters with a investigate trigger and swings as a deathtouch creature that grows whenever you sacrifice a Clue — meaningful board presence stapled to an artifact-sacrifice payoff. The rate is fair but not exceptional; you run it because your deck already wants Clues, not because it demands a slot on its own.
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 |
In Commander, Paranoid Parish-Blade finds its home in Clue-token and sacrifice-value decks — shells built around Lonis, Cryptozoologist or Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy that generate Clues incidentally and want a body that rewards cashing them in. Outside Commander, it's technically legal in Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer, but competes against far more efficient threats in every one of those formats and sees no meaningful play. It's a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Paranoid Parish-Blade sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick out of a common box rather than buy. Bulk rares don't appreciate unless they break into a competitive format, and nothing about this card's rate suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.