Butcher Orgg
Creature — Orgg
You may assign this creature's combat damage divided as you choose among defending player and/or any number of creatures they control.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #27931
Butcher Orgg lets you assign its combat damage however you want across any number of targets — creatures, planeswalkers, players — which is a genuinely unusual effect stapled to a 6/6 trampler for seven mana. The cost is the problem: seven mana for a creature with no protection and no immediate effect is a steep ask in any competitive context.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only realistic home for Butcher Orgg, and even there it's a niche pick. The free damage distribution reads best under commanders that care about dealing damage to multiple players simultaneously — Rakdos, the Showstopper-style chaos builds or Kardur, Doomscourge-adjacent goad decks where you want to spread pain around the table. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper but irrelevant; seven-mana vanilla-adjacent creatures don't touch those formats. Butcher Orgg occupies a narrow Commander slot: it's not unplayable, but it's competing against cheaper, more resilient threats at every turn.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Butcher Orgg is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because the effect fits a specific deck. It's unlikely to appreciate; niche seven-drops with no reprint demand don't move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.