Slayer's Cleaver
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +3/+1 and must be blocked by an Eldrazi if able.
Equip 
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eldritch Moon
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27885
Slayer's Cleaver staples a 3/3 Eldrazi Scion token onto every creature you equip — that's a free 3/3 body every combat rotation, which compounds fast in go-wide or sacrifice strategies. The equip cost of 3 and the initial 3 to cast are real friction, but the repeatable token generation is the rare equipment effect that scales.
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 |
Slayer's Cleaver is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable token generation is too slow and mana-hungry to compete in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where equipment decks want immediate board impact for one or two mana. In Commander, it fits sacrifice shells and Eldrazi-tribal builds where each new Scion is either a free blocker, a mana source via sacrifice, or another body for payoffs like Grave Pact. Outside Commander, it's a bulk curiosity in legal formats but sees no meaningful play.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Slayer's Cleaver is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable simply because nothing is driving interest up, so there's no reason to expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.