Humble Budoka
Creature — Human Monk
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #29685
Humble Budoka is a 2/2 for two mana with no abilities — it does nothing beyond occupying a slot in your 99. The only deck that wants it is one that explicitly rewards running creatures with no abilities, and outside of that narrow niche it's unplayable.
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 |
Humble Budoka is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage, a vanilla 2/2 for two doesn't come close to the power threshold. Pauper has enough efficient commons that Humble Budoka doesn't make the cut there either. Commander is the one format where it sees any play at all, strictly in decks built around creatures with no abilities — think Isamaru, Hound of Konda or similar "vanillamatters" builds — where its blank text box is the point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Humble Budoka is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box at your local game store. It won't appreciate; demand is too narrow for the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.