Ominous Parcel
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 4 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #19907
Ominous Parcel is a one-mana artifact that taps for colorless and transforms into a 3/3 creature token once you've cast your seventh spell — functional ramp that doubles as a late-game threat. The payoff is real, but seven spells is a steep threshold that makes it a slow roleplayer rather than a reliable piece.
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 |
In Commander, Ominous Parcel occupies the bottom tier of mana rocks — it enters untapped and produces colorless mana, which is fine, but the transform condition asking for seven spells in a singleton format means the creature half rarely materializes before the game is decided. Pauper is where it has the most legitimate competition for a slot, since commons-only pools shrink the field of one-mana accelerants, though even there dedicated spell-count decks will find better payoffs. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, the card is legal but irrelevant — those formats have access to far more efficient options and zero reason to run it. Ominous Parcel is a Commander bulk inclusion at best, and a borderline one at that.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Ominous Parcel is deep bulk — the kind of card that comes in a precon and gets traded away for sleeve money. There's no price floor to worry about here; it holds value only as long as someone needs to fill a one-mana artifact slot on the absolute tightest of budgets.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.