Frost Ogre
Creature — Ogre Warrior
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #30129
Frost Ogre is a 5/3 for five mana with no abilities — a vanilla body that gets outclassed by nearly every other five-drop in the game. There is no shell where this is the right card.
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 |
Frost Ogre is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper, where the bar for commons is high and every slot competes for real effect, a vanilla 5/3 at five mana doesn't make the cut. In Commander, 100-card singleton decks demand creatures that do something the turn they enter or generate ongoing value, and Frost Ogre does neither. Vintage and Legacy have access to the most powerful cards ever printed — this card was never going to show up there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Frost Ogre sits firmly in bulk territory, which is exactly where a card with no competitive application belongs. The price won't move — bulk vanilla creatures don't recover value unless they get an errata or a rules change that will never come.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.