Orcish Hellraiser
Creature — Orc Warrior
Echo 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #26312
Orcish Hellraiser puts two damage on any target the moment it enters — a 2/2 body with a free Shock stapled on, all for two mana. The echo cost is the entire trade-off: pay again on your next upkeep or sacrifice it, which is a real downside unless your deck is built to exploit 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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Orcish Hellraiser earns its slot specifically in Goblin tribal, Purphoros ping, or sacrifice-outlet decks where the echo clause is either irrelevant or intentional fuel — outside those homes, a vanilla 2/2 with a conditional upkeep cost is too low-impact for a 100-card singleton format. Pauper is where it actually competes on rate: two mana for a body plus a Shock is efficient enough for red aggro or burn-adjacent strategies that can afford to let it die. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the card is simply too fair for formats that can goldfish a kill on turn one or two. Modern has better two-drops at every angle, so Orcish Hellraiser won't find a home there either.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Orcish Hellraiser is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. It's unlikely to move off that floor given how narrow its homes are and how many printings exist.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.