Ogre Recluse
Creature — Ogre Warrior
Whenever a player casts a spell, tap this creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30981
Ogre Recluse is a 6/1 for four mana — enormous power for the cost, with the hard condition that it can't attack if you control any other creatures. That restriction makes it nearly unplayable in every realistic game state, and no amount of rate-fishing justifies building around a 6/1 that sits idle.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ogre Recluse is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the multiplayer board state almost guarantees you'll always have other creatures, so Ogre Recluse is a permanent 6/1 that can't attack — a blank that costs four mana. Legacy and Vintage have powerful enough tools that a conditional beatstick at this cost never makes the cut. Modern is the same story: aggressive red decks want unconditional attackers, and this one fails that test on nearly every turn it matters.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Ogre Recluse is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely leaves it. Bulk rares with no competitive home don't recover value without a rules change or an unlikely new mechanic that rewards benching your own creatures.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.