Inquisitor's Ox
Creature — Ox
Delirium — This creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #24163
Inquisitor's Ox is a 2/4 vigilance lifelinker for four mana — decent stats, but four mana for a vanilla-adjacent body with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no text that advances a board state is too slow for most powered tables. It stabilizes in limited; it's a filler card everywhere else.
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 |
Inquisitor's Ox is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as playability. In Pauper, where common-slot bodies are scrutinized heavily, a four-mana 2/4 with vigilance and lifelink competes against cards that trade up or generate card advantage — it doesn't clear that bar. In Commander, the card gets buried under the format's demand for impact at every mana cost; a 2/4 that gains you some life does nothing to stop a board that's trying to end the game on turn five or six. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — Inquisitor's Ox has no business in formats where the baseline efficiency is that high.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Inquisitor's Ox is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a penny box and stays there. There's no demand driver that would move this off the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.