Gutwrencher Oni
Creature — Demon Spirit
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card if you don't control an Ogre.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #24240
Gutwrencher Oni puts a 5/4 intimidate body on the board for five mana — that's a respectable rate — but the upkeep discard condition means it eats a card every turn you don't control another Oni. Outside of a dedicated Oni tribal shell, that drawback makes it a liability rather than a threat.
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 |
Gutwrencher Oni sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature with a downside doesn't register in formats where threats need immediate or recursive impact. In Commander, it's a narrow tribal inclusion: Oni decks are sparse, so the upkeep discard triggers more often than not, making it a poor fit outside dedicated black creature-type tribal builds. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton structure and the same tribal scarcity problem, so the same verdict applies there.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Gutwrencher Oni is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price reflects the demand accurately and isn't going up; tribal payoff cards with conditional drawbacks don't appreciate without a new Oni lord to spike interest.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.