Skip to content
Moxonomy

Sawblade Slinger

Creature — Human Archer3 generic manaGreen mana

Green has always been the color that answers artifacts on a body: a long line of creatures whose enter-the-battlefield trigger blows up a Cranial Plating or a Pentavus and leaves a beater behind. What distinguishes this one is the "choose up to one" clause, which turns two hyper-narrow modes into a card that is never dead. The artifact destruction and the Zombie fight are both opponent-facing and both easily irrelevant, so most designs would exile one of them to a sideboard. Here the flexibility does that work instead: against an artifact deck you crack a permanent, against a graveyard-fueled undead deck you point the 4/3 at their best creature, and against anything else you decline both and cast a plain 4/3. The four mana and the modest toughness are the tax; the modal trigger is the free upside stapled on top. That Zombie clause betrays where this was built to matter, an environment where undead were the recurring threat and this was matchup-specific hate most cards would never main-deck. Folding it into an ETB you can safely ignore is the whole trick: the card asks nothing of you in the games where its answers do not apply, and quietly overperforms in the two matchups it was designed to punish.

Sawblade Slinger (vow)
VOW · #217uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, choose up to one — • Destroy target artifact an opponent controls. • This creature fights target Zombie an opponent controls.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

1 set
Quick navigation
move selectesc close