Slag Strider
Creature — Elemental
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact you control.), Sacrifice an artifact: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #21005
Slag Strider turns artifact enters-the-battlefield and leaves-the-battlefield triggers into direct damage and life gain, which sounds potent until you notice you're paying five mana for a 3/3 with no evasion to do it. In artifact-heavy Commander shells it can grind out incremental value, but five mana is a steep ask for a body that accomplishes nothing on its own.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Slag Strider is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in non-rotating formats has no interest in a five-mana 3/3 with a conditional triggered ability. In Commander it finds its most hospitable home — artifact-heavy decks that generate constant artifact churn can convert each Slag Strider trigger into meaningful chip damage across multiple opponents. Even there, it sits well down the pecking order of payoffs for artifact sacrifice or ETB loops, where dedicated engines typically outclass it. Outside Commander, it simply doesn't meet the efficiency bar any competitive format demands.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Slag Strider isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow application and low competitive demand, it almost certainly sits in bulk-rare territory — worth picking up for pennies if an artifact-churn Commander build calls for it, but not a card to hunt down at a premium.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.