Ragged Recluse // Odious Witch
Creature — Human Peasant // Creature — Human Warlock
At the beginning of your end step, if you discarded a card this turn, transform this creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad: Crimson Vow
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24789
Ragged Recluse // Odious Witch enters as a 1/4 deathtouch wall that transforms into a poison-counter engine, threatening to close games out of nowhere once flipped. The cost is real — you need to discard a card each turn to keep the Witch active — but the deathtouch body buys time while you assemble the pieces to make that drawback irrelevant.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ragged Recluse // Odious Witch occupies a narrow niche: poison-counter strategies want it, and almost no one else does. The transform condition requires discarding a card each upkeep, which is painful in a format where card advantage is already stretched across four players. Pauper is where the card sees the most realistic competitive consideration, since deathtouch bodies and alternative win conditions matter more in a lower-power environment. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest — the rate is too slow for formats where games end on turns three through five. At common, the floor is always casual Commander and Pauper kitchen tables.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Ragged Recluse // Odious Witch is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. There is no price pressure pushing it up, and it will stay at this floor unless poison strategies break into mainstream Commander or Pauper.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.