Hezrou // Demonic Stench
Creature — Frog Demon // Instant — Adventure
Whenever one or more creatures you control become blocked, each blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #19171
Hezrou // Demonic Stench lands as a 6/6 trampler with a persistent stench trigger that drains opponents each upkeep — real pressure for five mana. The back half is a cheap enchantment that keeps the tax ticking even after the body is gone, making this a two-for-one threat that asks answers for both halves.
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, Hezrou // Demonic Stench fits black midrange and demon-tribal lists as a reliable beater with built-in attrition — the enchantment back half means removal doesn't fully answer it. In Pauper, a 6/6 trample at common is a genuine finisher, and the lingering drain effect is legitimate reach in a format where life totals matter. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but the rate doesn't compete with what those formats can do for five mana. Oathbreaker is the other sweet spot — the drain trigger scales well in a four-player pod without the redundancy pressure Commander's 100-card singleton imposes.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Hezrou // Demonic Stench sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it a zero-hesitation pickup for any demon or black midrange build. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price rarely move unless a deck breaks them in a competitive format, and this one is firmly a casual card — buy it for the effect, not the foil.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.