Oran-Rief Invoker
Creature — Human Shaman
: This creature gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22117
Oran-Rief Invoker threatens a one-shot kill — 8 power and trample on any creature you control — for eight mana, all funneled through a 2/3 body that needs to survive long enough to matter. In most contexts that cost is prohibitive, but Agatha of the Vile Cauldron turns it into a free action the moment she exiles this card and you're swimming in +1/+1 counters.
Best Commanders
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Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron exiles Oran-Rief Invoker from the graveyard and spreads its activated ability across every creature she pumps with counters, converting an 8-mana ceiling into a repeatable combat finisher that scales with your board state.
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 |
Oran-Rief Invoker is a bulk common in every format that allows it, and that bulk status is honest — outside dedicated ability-copying shells, paying eight mana for a pump effect is simply uncompetitive in Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer. Pauper is where creature-based synergy brews get the most mileage from it, but even there the mana investment is hard to justify when combat tricks exist. Commander is the real home: the format's slower pace and abundance of mana-doubling effects make 8-mana activations reachable, and the ability's size floor — +8/+8 and trample on any target — is genuinely game-ending in a multiplayer context.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Oran-Rief Invoker is deep bulk and will stay there — demand is narrow enough that no reprint pressure or speculation could meaningfully move the needle. Grab as many as you need without a second thought.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.