Poisonbelly Ogre
Creature — Ogre Warrior
Whenever another creature enters, its controller loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #26902
Poisonbelly Ogre makes every opponent lose 1 life whenever any creature enters the battlefield — at five mana on a 3/3 body, that passive drain is the entire reason to play it. In token-heavy or creature-dense metas it stacks fast, but the rate is too slow for anything outside dedicated aristocrats or death-touch-triggers builds.
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 |
Poisonbelly Ogre is a Commander card through and through — the passive drain scales with the table, so four opponents and a board full of token generators means it's doing real work before you've even attacked. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where five mana needs to close games, not trickle life; the effect rarely justifies the slot. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern are non-starters — Poisonbelly Ogre's statline and speed don't meet the bar those formats demand. Stick it in Commander, specifically in shells that generate repeated creature entries to maximize the trigger count.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Poisonbelly Ogre is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a dollar bin without thinking twice. The price reflects its narrow role; it won't climb without a breakout Commander printing that makes drain-on-ETB a dominant strategy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.