Sin Prodder
Creature — Devil
Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #6756
Sin Prodder puts opponents in a lose-lose: let the card through and you get free gas, pay life and you're inching toward your own win conditions. The three mana and menace body are fine, but the real cost is that it does nothing the turn it enters — in faster pods it gets answered before a single card flips. Zurzoth, Chaos Rider decks are its happiest home because every revealed card that gets paid for still feeds the Devil-token engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider turns the life-payment trigger into a resource — whenever an opponent takes damage, Zurzoth makes Devils, so Sin Prodder's reveal punishes opponents either way: give you the card, or pay life and clock themselves closer to a Devil flood.
Raphael, Fiendish Savior
Raphael, Fiendish Savior is a Demon/Devil/Imp tribal commander, and Sin Prodder as a Devil checks the tribal box while also functioning as a value engine that rewards running a high-impact top end for opponents to fear flipping.
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
Sin Prodder and Rakdos, Lord of Riots share the same axis: opponents take damage, your big creatures get cheaper. Every life payment from a reveal is a discount on Rakdos's cost reduction, making Sin Prodder a quiet accelerant in the deck.
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds cares about end-step triggers, and Sin Prodder's reveal fires at the beginning of each upkeep — not a direct Obeka target, but the consistent chip damage it generates feeds into the broader life-total manipulation strategies that Obeka helms.
Mogis, God of Slaughter
Mogis, God of Slaughter already forces opponents into bad choices every upkeep, and Sin Prodder stacks a second mandatory decision on top — pay life or hand you a card. The philosophy is identical: death by a thousand cuts of small, punishing choices.
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 |
Sin Prodder is a Commander card through and through — three opponents means three life totals to squeeze and triple the pressure of the reveal mechanic. In competitive Modern or Legacy, a three-mana 3/2 that doesn't affect the board immediately simply isn't viable; formats that end on turns four or five punish that tempo loss hard. Pioneer is theoretically legal but the same logic applies: Sin Prodder is too slow for an aggressive shell and too low-impact for a controlling one. Commander is where the math flips, especially in high-CMC lists where opponents are genuinely scared of what flips off the top.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Sin Prodder is bulk — easy to pick up in a trade binder or throw into a cart without thinking. The price reflects the narrow application: it's excellent in the right home and nearly unplayable everywhere else, so wide demand never materialized to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Zurzoth, Chaos Rider
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior
- Rakdos, Lord of Riots
- Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
- Mogis, God of Slaughter
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.