Menacing Ogre
Creature — Ogre
Trample, haste
When this creature enters, each player secretly chooses a number. Then those numbers are revealed. Each player with the highest number loses that much life. If you are one of those players, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #26396
Menacing Ogre enters as a 3/3 trampler with haste and immediately forces a secret bid that can tack +1/+1 counters on itself — real pressure for five mana. The ceiling is a 5/5 trampler that swings the turn it lands; the floor is a vanilla 3/3 that handed your opponent a free life buffer.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Menacing Ogre is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is where the hidden bid becomes genuinely interesting, since three or four opponents all hedging creates real uncertainty about whether you'll win the counter boost. In a 1-on-1 format like Legacy or Vintage, the guessing game collapses: a single opponent can lowball the bid with near-perfect information, and a five-mana 3/3 with no guarantee of growing is nowhere near competitive in those card pools. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there it fits best in decks that can exploit the counter synergy or the guaranteed haste — not as a generic curve-filler.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Menacing Ogre sits firmly in bulk territory. It's a casual-only card with no competitive demand to prop the price up, so don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.