Hired Torturer
Creature — Human Rogue
Defender
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: Target opponent loses 2 life, then reveals a card at random from their hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28205
Hired Torturer asks three mana and a tap to drain one life and force a discard — a rate so slow it rarely earns its slot against a table of 40-life opponents. It sees play almost exclusively in dedicated aristocrats or tax-and-drain shells where incidental poke and hand disruption combine on a single body.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Hired Torturer is fringe playable: the drain-one output is marginal across four players, but the forced discard gives it a dual role that mono-black grind decks occasionally want on a repeatable creature. In Pauper it competes in a commons-only environment where three-mana do-nothings are punished quickly, so it rarely makes the cut outside of very casual builds. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage all have efficient enough threats and answers that Hired Torturer never registers — it's legal but irrelevant in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Hired Torturer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not demand. That price is stable because there's no competitive pull to drive it up, so grab it out of a bulk bin and don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.