Crooked Custodian
Creature — Ogre Rogue
This creature enters tapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27660
Crooked Custodian is a serviceable blocker that replaces itself on death — a fine rate for a creature that does something useful before it leaves. The cost is that it doesn't advance a proactive game plan, so it earns its slot only in decks that want sacrifice fodder or death triggers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Crooked Custodian fits cleanly into aristocrats and sacrifice shells where a body that draws a card on death is genuine value, not just a placeholder. Pauper is where it competes hardest — common-legal card draw stapled to a creature is a real resource in that format's slower grinds. In Modern and Legacy the bar for two-mana creatures is high enough that Crooked Custodian only makes the cut in dedicated sacrifice lists that specifically want cheap, replaceable bodies. Pioneer sits in a similar spot: playable in the niche, invisible everywhere else.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Crooked Custodian isn't available yet, which typically means it's either very new or very obscure. Pick up copies cheaply while attention is elsewhere if the archetype fits — fodder creatures with built-in card draw rarely stay unnoticed for long in Commander circles.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.