Orcish Conscripts
Creature — Orc
This creature can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack.
This creature can't block unless at least two other creatures block.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #29652
Orcish Conscripts is a 2/1 for one red mana with a crippling restriction: it can only attack or block if you control another red creature. Bulk filler — the condition is easy to blank and the body doesn't compensate.
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 |
Orcish Conscripts is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, a 2/1 that can't reliably attack or block is below the floor — even dedicated aggro red decks like Krenko, Mob Boss have far better one-drops. In Legacy and Vintage, the card never appears; one-mana creatures in those formats need to do something broken, and a conditional 2/1 does not qualify. Pauper is the only format where the discussion is even worth having, and there it still fails to make the cut because red aggro has access to Goblin Guide and Monastery Swiftspear.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Orcish Conscripts sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects the card's actual power level. There is no realistic scenario where demand pushes this higher — pick it up only if you have a very specific reason, which is hard to imagine.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.