Torsten Von Ursus
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition III
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27305
Torsten Von Ursus lands as a 7/7 and immediately loads your hand with up to seven creatures from the top of your library — the card advantage is front-loaded and irreversible even if he dies the next turn. The cost is seven mana, which means he lives in the late game, but the payoff is substantial enough that he earns that slot in any green deck willing to wait.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Torsten Von Ursus actually gets to breathe — seven mana is reachable by turn four or five in green, and the seven-creature reveal fills your hand with creatures that can immediately set up your board the following turns. In Legacy and Vintage he's technically legal but completely unplayable; those formats end before he resolves, and the payoff isn't remotely close to the efficiency bar those formats demand. Pauper bans him by rarity alone — he's mythic. Oathbreaker can support him in a creature-heavy green shell, though the 20-life starting total compresses the window to cast him meaningfully.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Torsten Von Ursus isn't currently available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live figure. As a mythic with a splashy but narrow effect, he tends to sit in budget-mythic territory — worth picking up if you're building around him, but not a card that demands urgency.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.