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Boneshard Slasher

Creature — Horror1 generic manaBlack mana

Threshold cuts both ways here, and that is the design conceit worth sitting with. Until the graveyard fills, this is a fragile evasive body that trades up for almost nothing. Reach seven cards and it becomes a 3/3 flier that anyone can kill with a single targeted spell or ability: not just removal, but a friendly pump, a bounce, even your own combat trick. The same upgrade that makes it a real threat installs a self-destruct switch keyed to being noticed at all. That is unusual restraint for a graveyard payoff. Most threshold creatures of this era simply got bigger and meaner once the yard filled; this one accepts a liability as the price of the bonus, asking you to protect a creature that punishes you for protecting it. The result is a clock that wants to stay invisible: deploy it, swing in the air, and never give the opponent a reason to point anything at it (which is also the line of play that denies you the chance to point anything at it yourself). It is a small, sharp meditation on the cost of caring about a creature, dressed up as a common-rarity beater.

Boneshard Slasher (tor)
TOR · #50uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $1.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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