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Street Urchin

Legendary Enchantment — Background

Commander creatures you own have "{1}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#12498
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Street Urchin card art
Street Urchin puts a repeatable damage source on the board for a single red mana — cheap enough that the tempo cost is almost nothing. It slots cleanly into Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator decks as a reliable trigger generator, and Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra lists run it at nearly a 20% rate for the same reason: one activation, one trigger, move on.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jenny FlintMadame Vastra

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra

19.8% of decks · synergy 0.20

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra rewards any creature that deals damage to opponents, and Street Urchin delivers that on demand — tap, pay one, ping, collect the payoff, repeat every turn cycle.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Street Urchin is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander. In 60-card formats where it's legal, a one-mana 1/1 with a tap-and-pay ability competes against much faster threats and rarely makes the cut. In Commander, the multiplayer table changes the math entirely — three opponents means three potential targets and three potential triggers off any payoff that cares about dealing damage. Oathbreaker shares the same multiplayer logic, so niche builds there could find use for it, but the card's design is most at home in 100-card singleton.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Street Urchin isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest. Given its narrow application and uncommon rarity, it typically sits in the bulk-to-low-value range and is worth picking up cheaply if your commander cares about pinging opponents.

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