Oni of Wild Places
Creature — Demon Spirit
Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a red creature you control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander Anthology
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #23376
Oni of Wild Places hits the table as a 6/5 trampler with haste and immediately bounces another red creature back to your hand — giving you a free replay trigger on anything with an enters-the-battlefield ability. The cost is steep at six mana, and the bounce is mandatory, so you need a deck built to exploit it rather than one that just tolerates it.
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 |
Oni of Wild Places is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace gives you time to reach six mana, and the ETB-bounce loop rewards the dense creature toolboxes that Commander decks naturally build. In Legacy and Vintage it's unplayable; those formats end before you reach six mana, and a creature with no protection dies to the first removal spell before the loop ever starts. Modern is technically legal but practically irrelevant for the same reason — six mana is too slow, and the payoff isn't close to Modern-competitive. Commander is the only context where Oni of Wild Places earns its slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Oni of Wild Places is deep bulk — easy to pick up in any trade binder or as a throw-in. Don't expect the price to move; it sees too little constructed play outside of niche ETB-loop Commander builds to generate real demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.