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Bile Urchin

Creature — Spirit

Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses 1 life.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#21316
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Bile Urchin card art
Bile Urchin is a one-mana 1/1 that drains an opponent for 1 when it dies — negligible on its face, but it becomes a repeatable sacrifice outlet in combo shells, particularly alongside Solemnity where persist and undying loops don't require additional support to go infinite. The body is irrelevant; the death trigger and free sacrifice are the entire point.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Bile Urchin sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — one-mana sacrifice outlets that only drain for 1 don't clear the bar when better options exist. In Pauper it's legal but similarly outclassed. Commander is where Bile Urchin actually earns a slot: sacrifice-matters decks and infinite-loop engines value a zero-cost body that drains the table on every iteration, and at one mana it's easy to include without warping your curve.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Bile Urchin is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'd bother ordering it. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile combo deck pushes it into the spotlight.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.