Oraxid
Creature — Crab Beast
Protection from red
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #25619
Oraxid is a 2/3 with protection from enchantments for three mana — a narrow defensive stat that sees almost no competitive play. Unless your meta is thick with enchantment-based removal like Pacifism or Song of the Dryads, the effect doesn't justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Oraxid is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, protection from enchantments is too situational to warrant a creature slot — it dodges Darksteel Mutation and Imprisoned in the Moon but does nothing against the game's most common interaction. In Pauper, where commons compete fiercely for three-mana creature slots, Oraxid's statline and protection type don't come close to the format's efficiency bar. Legacy and Vintage render it invisible.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Oraxid is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box and put back. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move it off the floor.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.