Onakke Javelineer
Creature — Ogre Spirit
Reach
: This creature deals 2 damage to target player or battle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24609
Onakke Javelineer trades a -1/-1 counter off itself to deal 2 damage to a target player or planeswalker — repeatable reach that compounds every time you reload counters on it. The cost is a body that shrinks toward irrelevance unless you have a counter-refill engine backing it up.
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 |
Onakke Javelineer is a bulk common, so constructed formats where efficiency is everything — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — have no use for it. Pauper is its most plausible competitive home, strictly in decks that generate -1/-1 counters externally, since the floor of a 3/2 for three with a one-shot ping is not good enough on its own. In Commander, it fits narrow +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter synergy decks where it can be refueled repeatedly, but it's a role-player at best, not a staple.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Onakke Javelineer is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. It will stay at this floor indefinitely unless a combo or counter-synergy deck in a high-visibility format puts it on the map, which is not on the horizon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.