Pyre-Sledge Arsonist
Creature — Lizard Shaman
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: This creature deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of permanents you've sacrificed this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21328
Pyre-Sledge Arsonist converts sacrifice fodder into direct damage, making it a live threat the moment your graveyard starts filling. The payoff is real, but it asks a lot of setup — you're running it because your deck already wants to sacrifice things, not as a standalone.
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 |
Commander is where Pyre-Sledge Arsonist does its best work — sacrifice-heavy decks like Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King can weaponize a full graveyard into lethal damage across multiple opponents. In Modern and Pioneer, the competition from faster, more redundant sacrifice payoffs makes it a fringe inclusion at best. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card quality to make any graveyard synergy work, but Pyre-Sledge Arsonist isn't competing for slots there — it's too slow against the available alternatives.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Pyre-Sledge Arsonist is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking about it. Bulk rares in niche synergy roles rarely climb unless a breakout deck adopts them, so buy it for the build, not the speculation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.