Wickerfolk Thresher
Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #10394
Wickerfolk Thresher puts a self-replacing sacrifice outlet on the board — when it dies, it replaces itself with a token, which means it costs you nothing to feed it to an altar or a commander that wants creatures dying. The catch is a four-mana body that doesn't pressure the board on its own, so it earns its slot through synergy, not stats — run it because Rendmaw, Creaking Nest or a similar engine makes every death count twice.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest triggers on nontoken creature deaths, and Wickerfolk Thresher dies and immediately produces a token — that's one Rendmaw trigger plus a fresh body to sacrifice again, generating Wicker tokens in a loop that scales hard with any free sacrifice outlet.
Winter, Misanthropic Guide
Winter, Misanthropic Guide cares about creature deaths and recurring sacrifice fodder, and Wickerfolk Thresher's self-replacing death trigger means it never truly leaves — Winter gets a trigger, you get a token, and the engine keeps churning without spending extra cards.
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 |
In Commander, Wickerfolk Thresher fills a specific role: cheap, renewable sacrifice fodder that never fully disappears from the board. It's not a generic inclusion — it belongs in decks built around death triggers, aristocrats payoffs, or commanders like Rendmaw, Creaking Nest that reward repeated creature deaths. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, Wickerfolk Thresher is too slow and too passive to see play; dedicated sacrifice decks there want cheaper, higher-impact pieces. Standard is the only non-rotating format where it could see fringe play if the right synergy pieces align, but it hasn't broken through. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the bar is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Wickerfolk Thresher is bulk, and that price reflects its narrow, synergy-dependent role. It's not a card that appreciates — pick up copies freely when building around it, but don't speculate on supply.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
- Winter, Misanthropic Guide
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.