War-Trained Slasher
Creature — Wolverine Dinosaur
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever this creature attacks a battle, double its power until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #23715
War-Trained Slasher enters as a 2/2 with menace for two mana, then grows a +1/+1 counter whenever a creature you control attacks — straightforward, board-present aggression at a low cost. It's not breaking any tables, but it does exactly what a two-drop in an aggressive deck is supposed to do.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
War-Trained Slasher is a Pauper card at heart — common, cheap, and self-scaling in the go-wide aggro shells that define that format. In Commander, it's too low-impact on its own; a 2/2 that grows incrementally gets lost in a 40-life multiplayer game unless you're running a dedicated counter-stacking or combat-triggers commander. Modern and Pioneer have enough efficient two-drops that War-Trained Slasher doesn't compete for slots. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, War-Trained Slasher is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a common bin, not a single sleeve. Bulk commons don't appreciate; pick up as many as you need and don't think about it twice.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.