Startled Relic Sloth
Creature — Sloth Beast
Trample, lifelink
At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #25595
Startled Relic Sloth freezes every artifact and creature an opponent controls for a turn — a one-sided pseudo-tap-down stapled to a 2/4 body — at the cost of five mana. That rate is too slow for anything but Commander, and even there it's a fringe role-player rather than a staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Startled Relic Sloth is a Commander card, full stop. In 60-card formats where five mana buys a game-ending threat, a temporary tap effect on one opponent's board doesn't clear the bar in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, or Legacy. Commander is where it finds a niche: multiplayer games reward political tempo swings, and neutralizing one player's board for a full turn can redirect attacks, protect a combo turn, or simply buy a rotation around the table. Even in Commander it's not an auto-include — decks that want this effect usually prefer repeatable or cheaper options — but the ceiling is real in the right shell.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Startled Relic Sloth is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship individually than it does to buy. Price stability is essentially guaranteed by the floor, not by demand, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.