Sokenzan Bruiser
Creature — Ogre Warrior
Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #30092
Sokenzan Bruiser lands as a 4/3 trample for three mana — above-rate stats with immediate board presence — but that rate only holds if you have seven or more cards in hand when you cast it. Miss that threshold and you're paying three for a vanilla 2/2, which is unplayable in any format that matters.
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 |
Sokenzan Bruiser is a pauper-legal common, and that's where the conversation starts and ends for competitive play — the card-advantage-matters Pauper environment can support the card-count condition more reliably than most formats. In Commander, the seven-card threshold is actually achievable in dedicated wheel or draw-heavy builds, but a conditional 4/3 trample rarely earns a slot when unconditional three-drops exist at every budget. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in Sokenzan Bruiser at any condition. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — fine in a wheels shell, irrelevant elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Sokenzan Bruiser is deep bulk — you're not buying this card, you're finding it in a draft chaff pile. It holds no financial value and won't appreciate, so pick it up for free if the deck calls for it and don't think twice about it otherwise.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.