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Ogre Slumlord

Creature — Ogre Rogue

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$0.32
EDHREC rank
#1834
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Ogre Slumlord card art
Ogre Slumlord turns every non-token creature death into a free Rat, and gives all your Rats deathtouch — a combination that warps combat math and generates board presence from your opponents' removal spells. The five-mana cost is the only real friction; in any Rat-tribal shell led by something like Totentanz, Swarm Piper, the payoff lands well before the game ends, and recursive threats like Nether Traitor make the engine nearly self-sustaining.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Totentanz, Swarm Piper

80.9% of decks · synergy 0.79

Totentanz, Swarm Piper's entire gameplan revolves around generating Rats from death triggers, and Ogre Slumlord doubles down on exactly that — every non-token that dies becomes another body feeding back into Totentanz's own abilities.

02
Wick, the Whorled Mind

Wick, the Whorled Mind

73.2% of decks · synergy 0.71

Wick, the Whorled Mind wants a high volume of small creatures entering and dying, and Ogre Slumlord provides a steady Rat stream from any non-token death, giving Wick more fodder to copy and sacrifice.

03
Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer

77.6% of decks · synergy 0.68

Marrow-Gnawer exponentially multiplies Rats, and Ogre Slumlord's deathtouch grant makes that flood of tokens a credible combat deterrent while the Rat-death clause replaces anything opponents trade into.

05
Vren, the Relentless

Vren, the Relentless

62.1% of decks · synergy 0.60

Vren, the Relentless profits from a wide Rat board, and Ogre Slumlord plugs the attrition hole — non-token deaths replace themselves with more Rats rather than leaving Vren with a shrinking army.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Ogre Slumlord does its best work — the multiplayer environment means more creatures dying across more turns, and Rat-tribal has deep enough support to build a dedicated shell around it. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too narrow; five mana for a 4/3 that requires a creature-death engine to generate value doesn't compete with what those formats do at that cost. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but the card has no footprint there. Ogre Slumlord is a Commander card through and through, and specifically a Rat-tribal Commander card — it rewards players who are already committed to that tribe rather than offering broad cross-archetype utility.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.32 bulk tier

At $0.32, Ogre Slumlord is firmly bulk, which makes it an easy include for any Rat deck on any budget. Given its narrow tribal home and relatively modest reprint history, the price is stable — don't expect it to spike, but you're not losing anything picking up a copy today.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.