Dokuchi Shadow-Walker
Creature — Ogre Ninja
Ninjutsu 
(, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #15876
Dokuchi Shadow-Walker hits the board as a 4/4 menace that kills a creature on entry — no targeting, no conditions, just a triggered sacrifice effect stapled to a relevant body. The cost is real: you discard a card to fuel it, which means it only belongs in decks that treat the graveyard as a resource.
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, Dokuchi Shadow-Walker earns a slot in reanimator and discard-matters builds where pitching a card to the graveyard is upside, not a drawback — Gisa and Geralf, Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, and similar commanders turn the discard clause into an engine piece. In Pauper it's a common, so it's technically legal, but a 4/4 at four mana with a discard cost is too slow and card-negative for that format's tempo demands. Modern and Legacy have no room for it — the effect is strong but the rate doesn't compete. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: valuable in the right shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Dokuchi Shadow-Walker is deep bulk — pick it up for virtually nothing and don't think twice about the cost. Bulk rares at this price point rarely recover unless a new commander or combo pushes them into demand, so treat it as a freely acquired role-player rather than a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.