Vulshok Heartstoker
Creature — Human Shaman
When this creature enters, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #30734
Vulshok Heartstoker enters the battlefield and hands one creature a permanent +2/+0 — no activation, no hoops, just a body that makes something bigger on arrival. A 2/1 for three mana is underpowered baseline, so you're running it strictly because the pump lands exactly when you need it most.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vulshok Heartstoker is a Commander card in the narrow sense: the format's tolerance for narrower role-players and the prevalence of creature-centric beatdown strategies give it a viable home, specifically in decks that want to push a single attacker through a stalled board. In Pauper it competes in a more efficient format where a 2/1 for three with a one-shot buff rarely survives the cut when better pump and body options exist at common. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage are nonstarters — Vulshok Heartstoker's rate is too slow by several turns for those environments. Stick to Commander, and even there only in the most attack-trigger- or combat-heavy builds where the ETB pump has a guaranteed target.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Vulshok Heartstoker is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice about the cost. That price reflects the card's power level accurately, and there's no meaningful value retention to consider here beyond its utility in the specific decks that actually want it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.