Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
More Than Meets the Eye 
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Double strike, haste
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of Slicer until end of turn. If you do, untap Slicer, goad it, and it can't be sacrificed this turn. If you don't, convert it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Transformers
- Price
- $8.83
- EDHREC rank
- #3257
Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist puts a 4/4 double strike, haste, trample threat on the board for two mana — the catch being that an opponent gets to attack with it on their turn too. That political wrinkle is the design, not the downside: Zidane, Tantalus Thief and similar commanders built around donated permanents treat the shared control as a feature, and in any other context Slicer is still a two-mana creature that demands an immediate answer.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zidane, Tantalus Thief
Zidane, Tantalus Thief is the natural home for Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist — Zidane rewards giving opponents your permanents and then exploiting the moment they attack or activate them, turning Slicer's mandatory attack clause from a liability into a repeating trigger machine.
Optimus Prime, Hero
Optimus Prime, Hero runs Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist as part of the broader Transformers robot synergy package, and the shared-combat mechanic fits naturally in a deck that already wants large attackers swinging into opponents each combat.
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos cares about opponents attacking each other, so Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist effectively deputizes another player's combat step as a resource — every swing Slicer makes on an opponent's turn advances Alexios's damage-tracking engine.
Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser forces opponents to attack, and Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist compounds that pressure by ensuring one opponent always has a dangerous weapon pointed at someone — the two effects together make it nearly impossible for anyone to sit back and do nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist does its best work: the four-player political dimension turns the shared-control clause into a genuine mechanic rather than a pure drawback, and a two-mana 4/4 with double strike, haste, and trample is a legitimately threatening rate at any table. In Legacy and Vintage, Slicer is legal but sees essentially no play — those formats don't have the political scaffolding that makes donating a threat interesting, and a creature that hands opponents a weapon is just bad when the game is heads-up. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer DNA that Slicer can occasionally slot in there for the same political reasons, though the smaller deck size and faster games compress the window to leverage the shared-control angle.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There's no clean one-card replacement for what Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist does at that rate — the combination of two mana, 4/4 stats, and the political shared-attack clause is unique. Hunted Horror gets close on the raw power-to-cost ratio, producing a 7/7 trampler for two black mana, though the Centaur tokens it gifts opponents are a real downside rather than a negotiable one. If the goal is specifically the politics of a threat other players attack with, Assault Suit is a cheaper route — it costs a bit more mana to equip but lets you move any creature around the table and grants it haste, approximating the Slicer experience on a creature you already control.
Price Context
Current price
$8.83 mid tier
At $8.83, Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist sits in the mid tier — expensive enough that you're making a deliberate purchase, cheap enough that it's not a budget obstacle for most Commander players. The price is stable for a card with a unique mechanical niche and solid inclusion rates across several high-traffic commanders, so there's no pressure to rush or wait.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.