Silumgar Butcher
Creature — Zombie Djinn
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #27698
Silumgar Butcher enters the battlefield and immediately kills a creature or planeswalker — no activation required, no hoops. The cost is seven mana on a 3/3 body, which makes it a value piece only in shells that cheat that number down, most obviously Rooftop Storm.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Silumgar Butcher is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower clock and tribal synergies are exactly where a seven-mana removal body finds a home. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; the format is too fast and too efficient for a seven-drop that doesn't win the game on the spot. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are similarly hostile — no competitive shell wants this rate. Commander is where Silumgar Butcher actually functions: zombie tribal commanders can recur it, blink commanders can retrigger the exploit, and cost-reduction engines turn a clunky top-end into a free removal spell stapled to a creature.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Rooftop StormEnduring RenewalSilumgar Butcher
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Rooftop StormMortuaryRealmwalkerSilumgar Butcher
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Silumgar Butcher is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common box without thinking twice. Bulk rare prices like this don't move unless a deck breaks the card, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.