Charging Cinderhorn
Creature — Elemental Ox
Haste
At the beginning of each player's end step, if no creatures attacked this turn, put a fury counter on this creature. Then this creature deals damage equal to the number of fury counters on it to that player.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2016
- Price
- $0.52
- EDHREC rank
- #18368
Charging Cinderhorn pressures every opponent who passes without attacking, stacking +1/+1 counters and dealing 1 damage to their face each end step — in a four-player game, that snowballs fast. The cost is that you have no control over where the counters land, and a patient opponent can just attack into you to reset the clock.
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 |
Charging Cinderhorn is a Commander card through and through — the punishment trigger only scales with the number of opponents who skip attacking, and at four players it can stack counters twice per round while pinging two separate players. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, a four-mana 4/2 with no immediate impact gets ignored entirely; faster formats have no use for incremental group-slug effects. In Oathbreaker the two-player dynamic dulls it further, since there's only one opponent to pressure and they can simply attack into it to neutralize the trigger.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.52 bulk tier
At $0.52, Charging Cinderhorn is firmly bulk — low financial risk for a card you're mostly picking up to try in a goad or group-slug shell. It's unlikely to climb unless a pushed commander with explicit synergy gets printed, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.