Shredder's Revenge
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Target player discards two cards.
• Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #17536
Shredder's Revenge is a clean instant-speed damage spell that scales directly with how many creatures you control — the more bodies on board, the harder it hits. At one red mana with optional enhancements, it converts a wide board into a targeted removal or face-burn threat without sacrificing a single attacker.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shredder's Revenge pays off in token and go-wide strategies where a populated board turns it into a 10-plus damage instant for one mana — few cards in red offer that ratio. Competitive constructed formats give it less room: Modern and Pioneer have faster clocks and more efficient burn, so it only fits aggro shells that can reliably flood the board by turn three. Pauper is where it quietly overperforms, since common-legal token payoffs are plentiful and the ceiling on damage is high relative to the format's life totals. Legacy and Vintage have too much interaction at instant speed to let a battlefield condition like this resolve profitably.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Shredder's Revenge is deep bulk — no barrier to picking up four copies or a playset for any token deck on a tight budget. Bulk commons with niche upside rarely spike unless a deck breaks them in a non-rotating format, so treat this as a free inclusion, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.