Slickshot Vault-Buster
Creature — Human Rogue
Vigilance
This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #25905
Slickshot Vault-Buster drops a 3/3 with haste and plot, creates a Treasure token, and punches the player with the highest life total — three things happening on a single four-mana body. The cost is real: four mana for a creature this fragile to removal means it rarely sticks, but if you just need the Treasure and the punch to fire on entry, that's fine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Slickshot Vault-Buster slots cleanly into treasure-synergy and go-wide red decks — the Treasure plus the damage trigger does real work, and the plot ability lets you bank it for a turn when you need the mana elsewhere. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, four mana is a steep ask for a creature with no protection, and dedicated treasure or aggro shells have tighter options available at this slot. Standard is its most competitive home outside Commander, where the combination of haste, a free Treasure, and a life-swing against the leader can close games or disrupt life-total math in aggressive red builds.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Slickshot Vault-Buster is deep bulk — pick it up for nothing out of a commons box or a budget order. Bulk rares with narrow competitive appeal rarely recover value, so treat this as a free include for casual Commander lists and nothing more.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.