Ghazbán Ogre
Creature — Ogre
At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of this creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Chronicles Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29614
Ghazbán Ogre is a 2/2 for one green mana — elite rate on stats — but its control clause hands the card to whoever has the lowest life total at the start of your upkeep, which in multiplayer means it spends most of its time working against you. Run it only if you're engineering a reason to stay the lowest-life player, not because a 2/2 for G looks like a deal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ghazbán Ogre is essentially unplayable outside of highly specific life-drain or group-hug setups — four players means three chances per round for the Ogre to defect, and the math rarely favors the green mage. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card pool to ignore a 2/2 entirely; aggro strategies that want a one-mana threat have strictly better options with no ownership baggage. Pauper is the one format where Ghazbán Ogre occasionally surfaces as a curiosity, but even there the control clause is a liability in any race-heavy meta where life totals swing fast.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Ghazbán Ogre isn't currently available, which tracks — it moves in small quantities through casual and vintage-curiosity channels rather than any competitive demand. Pick it up from a bulk bin if the concept interests you; there's no evidence of meaningful price pressure in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.