Wicked Reward
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Target creature gets +4/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Multiverse Gift Box
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28789
Wicked Reward pumps a creature by +4/+2 until end of turn for free — the cost is sacrificing another creature you control. It's a clean combat trick in any deck that generates expendable bodies, and a liability in anything that doesn't.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Wicked Reward is a role-player, not a staple — it earns a slot specifically when the deck generates tokens or values sacrifice triggers, and it's dead weight otherwise. In Pauper, the common-legal card pool makes efficient pump spells matter more, and decks running Carrion Feeder or Dusk Legion Zealot can cash in a spent body for a genuine clock. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but ignore it entirely — the formats move too fast for a sorcery-speed pump with a mandatory creature cost. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: good in the right shell, invisible outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.