Terror Ballista
Artifact Creature — Construct
Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Unearth 
(: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #18354
Terror Ballista enters as a two-power threat that pings for one damage on both arrival and departure — immediate board presence plus a guaranteed parting shot. The four-mana cost is fair, not exciting, and the card earns its slot only in decks that can blink, bounce, or recur it repeatedly.
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 |
Commander is where Terror Ballista actually has a home, specifically in blink and sacrifice engines that reset its enters-the-battlefield and leaves-the-battlefield triggers on demand. In Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy it faces too much competition from more efficient threats and utility creatures to see serious play. Vintage has no interest — the power ceiling there is simply too high. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's conditions: it works if the strategy supports it, and does nothing otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Terror Ballista is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a trade binder or toss into a cart to hit free shipping. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a combo or format shift drags them into relevance, and nothing on the horizon signals that here.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.