Sawtooth Thresher
Artifact Creature — Construct
Sunburst (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
Remove two +1/+1 counters from this creature: It gets +4/+4 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fifth Dawn
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27454
Sawtooth Thresher enters as a 2/2 for six mana, then grows by spending artifact and creature mana — a payoff that demands too much investment for too little board presence. Six mana for a 2/2 with an activated ability that doesn't win the game on its own is not a rate Commander tables respect.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sawtooth Thresher is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Pauper it's a common, so the bar is lower, but a six-mana 2/2 that grows slowly still can't compete with the format's efficient threats. In Commander it needs an artifact-and-creature-heavy shell just to function, and even then it's a win-more card that requires the board state you'd already be winning with. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it at any cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Sawtooth Thresher is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price is stable for the same reason it's low: demand is negligible and isn't coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.