Sickleslicer
Artifact — Equipment
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #17274
Sickleslicer is a Living Weapon that enters as a 3/3 for four mana — a passable body that frees up the equipment when you need it elsewhere. It's a serviceable rate in limited formats but nothing that earns a slot in a tuned Commander list.
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 |
Sickleslicer sees the most relevant play in Pauper, where a self-equipping 3/3 at common has real board presence and equipment synergies are easier to build around. In Commander, it lands in the middle of a crowded field of better equipment and better creatures — you'd need a dedicated Voltron or equipment-tribal shell, like Galea, Kindler of Hope or Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale, to even consider it, and it still rarely makes the cut. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it, and it's not legal in Standard or Pioneer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Sickleslicer is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder filler pile. Don't expect the price to move; the ceiling on a four-mana do-nothing-special equipment in non-rotating formats is firmly this low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.