Tormented Hero
Creature — Human Warrior
This creature enters tapped.
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #22960
Tormented Hero is a one-mana 2/1 with lifelink that drains each opponent whenever another Warrior enters the battlefield under your control — real pressure for a card that costs nothing. Outside of dedicated Warrior tribal builds, that trigger rarely fires enough to justify the slot.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tormented Hero belongs exclusively in Warrior tribal decks where the heroic-style drain triggers stack up fast enough to matter across three opponents. In Legacy and Vintage, a one-mana 2/1 with lifelink is competitively irrelevant — those formats ignore it entirely. Modern and Pioneer have enough aggressive one-drops competing for slots that Tormented Hero doesn't make the cut outside narrow tribal shells. Oathbreaker is the one exception where a low-cost, drain-on-entry creature can snowball quickly with the right Warrior-centric signature spell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Tormented Hero is deep bulk — buy a playset for a dime and don't think twice about it. The price won't move; it's a niche tribal piece with no crossover demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.