Orochi Soul-Reaver
Creature — Snake Ninja Rogue
Ninjutsu 
(, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Price
- $14.94
- EDHREC rank
- #3575
Orochi Soul-Reaver turns every creature your opponents control into a resource, converting their board presence into mana or cards whenever they attack — the engine is immediate and punishing. It slots cleanly into Breath of Fury loops and is the card Gonti, Canny Acquisitor decks most want to see on turn four.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor triggers whenever an opponent's creature attacks, and Orochi Soul-Reaver converts those same attack triggers into mana, letting you cash in opponents' aggression twice per swing.
Rev, Tithe Extractor
Rev, Tithe Extractor taxes opponents for using their resources, and Orochi Soul-Reaver extends that punishment to the combat step — every attacker they send becomes fuel rather than a threat.
Gonti, Night Minister
Gonti, Night Minister cares about opponents losing life and sacrificing permanents, and Orochi Soul-Reaver incentivizes attack-heavy gameplay that feeds those triggers while keeping mana flowing.
Splinter, Radical Rat
Splinter, Radical Rat rewards you for interacting with opponents' creatures, and Orochi Soul-Reaver turns the combat phase into a sustained mana engine that keeps Splinter's activated abilities live.
Felix Five-Boots
Felix Five-Boots thrives in decks that generate value off creature-based mechanics, and Orochi Soul-Reaver's attack-triggered ramp scales directly with how many creatures opponents develop.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Orochi Soul-Reaver is built to live — three or more opponents means a crowded board almost every game, and each attacker they send is a trigger. The card is legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no meaningful play there; the effect is too slow and conditional against interactive decks that don't develop creature boards. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is: multiplayer tables with creature-heavy strategies give it consistent fodder. Outside of those multiplayer formats, Orochi Soul-Reaver is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Breath of FuryOrochi Soul-ReaverRising of the Day
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Breath of FuryOrochi Soul-ReaverFrostcliff Siege
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite combat phases; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite combat damage
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Breath of FuryOrochi Soul-ReaverUrabrask the Hidden
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Breath of FuryOrochi Soul-ReaverAnger
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Breath of FuryOrochi Soul-ReaverMass Hysteria
Infinite colored mana; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the price is the obstacle, Smuggler's Share and Breena, the Demagogue both convert opponents' game actions into cards or tokens for under $5, though neither generates mana directly the way Orochi Soul-Reaver does. You lose the ramp dimension entirely with those replacements, which matters most in decks built to abuse the mana output in a single explosive turn.
Price Context
Current price
$14.94 mid tier
At $14.94, Orochi Soul-Reaver sits in the mid tier — justified for a build-around in dedicated Gonti or theft strategies, harder to justify as a generic value piece in a pile. It's a new card with a narrow audience, so the price reflects early demand; whether it holds depends on how deeply the Bloomburrow-adjacent commander archetypes develop.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.