Amphin Cutthroat
Creature — Salamander Rogue
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #29628
Amphin Cutthroat is a 3/2 Salamander Rogue for four mana with no enters-the-battlefield effect, no evasion, and no relevant text beyond its creature types. The cost is everything — four mana for a vanilla 3/2 is unplayable outside of tribal shells that specifically need the Salamander or Rogue tag.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Amphin Cutthroat sees essentially zero competitive play across any format it's legal in — Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pauper all have far more efficient creatures at the same mana cost. In Commander, it only earns a slot in dedicated Rogue or Salamander tribal decks where the creature type itself is the payload, not the stats. Pauper is the one format where the bar is lowest, but even there a vanilla 3/2 for four is outclassed by nearly every other common at that cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Amphin Cutthroat is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a commons box and rarely leaves it. It holds no monetary value and won't appreciate, so buy it purely because you need the creature type, not as any kind of acquisition.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.