Spined Fluke
Creature — Worm Horror
When this creature enters, sacrifice a creature.
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27372
Spined Fluke is a 5/3 for two mana — that rate is real — but it demands you sacrifice a creature when it enters and when it leaves, which means it's a net negative on board presence unless you're actively engineering those sacrifices. Run it only in decks that want to sacrifice creatures as a resource, not as a tax.
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 |
Spined Fluke is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and irrelevant in all of them outside of dedicated sacrifice synergy shells. In Commander, the only home is a deck built around sacrifice triggers — something like Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King — where the enter and exit sacrifices turn into value rather than card disadvantage. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a two-mana 5/3 with this much friction when better threats exist at every point on the curve. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: niche at best, dead weight at worst.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Spined Fluke is deep bulk — the price reflects its narrow playability accurately. It won't climb without a significant sacrifice-synergy reprint or Commander precon push, so there's no reason to speculate; just grab a copy if the deck calls for it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.