Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
Artifact // Artifact
When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Craft with creature 
(, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #4387
Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher enters as a two-mana artifact that forces each opponent to sacrifice a creature and drains them for the count — meaningful board impact the turn it lands. The catch is that the drain trigger requires flipping it into Consuming Sepulcher, which demands three more mana and a sacrifice of your own, so it rewards decks that already want fodder on the table rather than those just looking for cheap removal.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Glissa, the Traitor
Glissa, the Traitor recurs artifacts from the graveyard whenever an opponent's creature dies, and Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher forces exactly that — opponents sacrifice creatures, Glissa triggers, and the blade keeps coming back for another round.
Mishra, Eminent One
Mishra, Eminent One copies noncreature artifacts as hasty constructs at the start of combat, meaning a second Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher token can fire off another enters-the-battlefield drain trigger every turn cycle.
Fumulus, the Infestation
Fumulus, the Infestation cares about artifacts entering and dying, so Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher's flip sequence — artifact enters, drains, then sacrifices out — feeds that engine cleanly with minimal extra investment.
Vren, the Relentless
Vren, the Relentless builds around Rats and sacrifice synergies, and Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher supplies both a forced sacrifice from opponents and a self-sacrifice outlet on the back half, slotting naturally into that loop.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Braids, Arisen Nightmare rewards you for making opponents sacrifice permanents and punishes them when they don't, so Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher's mandatory sacrifice trigger on entry aligns perfectly with what Braids is already taxing the table to do.
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 |
Commander is where Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher does its best work — three opponents means the enters trigger forces three sacrifices and drains for triple the creatures lost, which can swing life totals meaningfully in one move. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too narrow; a two-mana artifact that doesn't impact the board immediately doesn't make that cut. Modern and Pioneer have access to it but lack the go-wide sacrifice shells that maximize the drain, so it rarely sees play there. Pauper is its most interesting non-Commander home, where drain-based black strategies are real and the floor of forced sacrifice is genuinely disruptive at the format's creature size.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a commons box. The price reflects its niche role rather than any ceiling on its power, and given the healthy Commander adoption numbers, it's unlikely to spike but equally unlikely to drop further.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Glissa, the Traitor
- Mishra, Eminent One
- Fumulus, the Infestation
- Vren, the Relentless
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.