Vile Mutilator
Creature — Demon
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment.
Flying, trample
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken enchantment of their choice, then sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #6656
Vile Mutilator enters and forces each opponent to sacrifice a creature unless they let you draw a card — repeated access to that trigger is the whole game. Winter, Cynical Opportunist can blink or recur it on demand, making that may-draw mandatory pressure on every opponent every loop.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
Winter, Cynical Opportunist runs Vile Mutilator because blinking it on each opponent's turn turns the ETB into a repeating soft-lock — pay up or sacrifice, every turn, against every opponent.
Akul the Unrepentant
Akul the Unrepentant cheats creatures from the graveyard and hand into play, which means Vile Mutilator's ETB fires multiple times without needing external blink support — the sacrifice pressure stacks naturally with Akul's attrition gameplan.
Ardyn, the Usurper
Ardyn, the Usurper rewards draining opponents repeatedly, and Vile Mutilator forces a decision every time it enters — each opponent who refuses to let you draw instead feeds Ardyn's death-trigger economy with a sacrificed creature.
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 |
Vile Mutilator is a Commander card through and through — the ETB scales with opponent count, so the three-versus-one math of a pod makes it far stronger than any 1v1 format. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy, a 3/3 for four mana with no immediate board impact and no evasion simply doesn't clear the bar. Standard legality is largely academic; the effect is too slow for aggro and too replaceable for control. Commander is where the trigger's forced-sacrifice-or-draw clause actually creates meaningful decisions, especially in blink shells that reset it repeatedly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Vile Mutilator is bulk — easy to pick up and easy to cut without regret. Given its near-exclusive home in Winter, Cynical Opportunist decks, the price is unlikely to climb unless that commander sees a significant spike in popularity.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.