Cursed Ronin
Creature — Human Samurai
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #26427
Cursed Ronin is a four-mana 2/2 with lifelink that can pump itself by tapping and spending mana — underwhelming stats for the cost, and the activation is slow enough that opponents will see it coming. Unless you're building around a very specific drain or aristocrats theme, there are better four-drops in black.
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 |
Cursed Ronin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's not pulling weight in the powered formats where black has far stronger options. Pauper is where Cursed Ronin is most at home — commons-only narrows the competition, and a repeatable lifelink threat that can grow has genuine niche value in slower drain or black-devotion shells. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion at best, showing up only in decks that want every lifelink body they can find, like Oloro or Ayli lists padding their life-gain count.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Cursed Ronin is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not buying it intentionally. That price is unlikely to move; there's no competitive demand to push it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.