Ogre Menial
Creature — Phyrexian Ogre
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #22855
Ogre Menial is a 1/1 for four mana that gains +1/+1 counters only when you sacrifice other creatures — an engine piece that does nothing on its own and asks too much to get going. The cost in both mana and setup is too steep for what amounts to a beater that never threatens to close a game.
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 |
Ogre Menial is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, sacrifice synergy decks have far more efficient payoffs that either cost less mana, enter with immediate impact, or scale harder with multiple sacrifices — Ogre Menial competes poorly on every axis. In Pauper, the common card pool is efficient enough that a 1/1 for four with no enters-the-battlefield effect doesn't make the cut in any established archetype. Legacy and Vintage don't have a home for it either.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Ogre Menial is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a trade binder's forgotten pages. Bulk stays bulk; there's no realistic demand driver that would move this off the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.