Fortune Thief
Creature — Human Rogue
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Morph 
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters 25
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #13237
Fortune Thief turns your life total into a damage floor of 1, making it a hard answer to any lethal burn spell or combat swing that would otherwise close the game. The six-mana morph cost is steep, but commanders like Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence that weaponize self-damage loops and cards like Arcbond that convert damage into mass pings make Fortune Thief a pillar rather than a curiosity.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence accumulates counters off non-combat damage dealt to you, and Fortune Thief guarantees you survive the very damage spells that fuel that engine — letting you push life totals dangerously low without dying to a blowout.
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
Fortune Thief is a Warrior with morph, which checks both boxes Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods cares about — it contributes to the face-down creature count and slots cleanly into the tribal shell while providing a safety net against the aggressive mirrors that Yarus attracts.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Fortune Thief sees virtually no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — six mana for a damage-prevention effect is far too slow in formats where games end on turns three or four. Commander is its natural home: the 100-card singleton environment rewards corner-case protection, and a single Fortune Thief on board forces every opponent at the table to recalculate their lethal lines. In Oathbreaker it functions similarly but the smaller pod size limits how much table-wide deterrence it generates.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Fortune Thief is firmly bulk — low enough that picking up a copy costs nothing. Bulk mythics and rares with narrow, build-around effects rarely spike without a new combo partner printing into Standard, and Fortune Thief is not legal there, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.