Tenured Oilcaster
Creature — Phyrexian Wizard
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
This creature gets +3/+0 as long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each player mills a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22454
Tenured Oilcaster enters the battlefield and immediately puts an oil counter on each other creature you control — no hoops, no triggers to set up. That passive manufacture of oil counters on a 2/3 body for three mana is exactly the rate Phyrexian-counter decks want.
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 |
Tenured Oilcaster is a Commander card through and through — the oil-counter payoffs that make it worthwhile are concentrated in Phyrexia-themed EDH builds, where a single ETB can distribute counters across a wide board. In Pauper it's legal and the common slot is relevant, but the oil-counter ecosystem barely exists at that level, so it sits unplayed. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have zero interest; three mana for a vanilla-ish 2/3 after the ETB resolves doesn't compete in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander closely enough that the same Phyrexian-synergy shells would pick it up there too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Tenured Oilcaster is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin or grabbing a playset for pocket change. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow tribal synergy rarely climb unless a new commander dramatically spikes demand, so treat this as a stable, cheap pickup rather than anything that appreciates.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.