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Orcish Vandal

Creature — Orc Warrior

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Dominaria
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#25282
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Orcish Vandal card art
Orcish Vandal converts any artifact sacrifice into a direct damage ping, and in the right shell that's a repeatable engine, not a one-shot trick. The cost is real — you need a steady artifact supply to make it worth a card slot — but decks like Emry, Lurker of the Loch that loop artifacts from the graveyard turn Orcish Vandal into a legitimate win condition.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Orcish Vandal earns its slot exclusively in artifact-sacrifice decks — it does nothing without fuel, but with a looping artifact engine it can close games. In Pauper it's a common with genuine combo potential, pairing with any recursive artifact to generate repeated damage at a format where life totals are low. Modern and Legacy have faster, more redundant sacrifice payoffs, so Orcish Vandal competes for a crowded slot and rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated combo lists. Pioneer is a similar story — playable in theory, largely outclassed in practice.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Orcish Vandal is deep bulk — buy a playset without thinking twice. That price is stable; there's no casual demand spike coming for a card this narrow, but you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it's the right piece for your engine.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.