Upriser Renegade
Creature — Human Samurai
This creature gets +2/+0 for each other modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #15046
Upriser Renegade turns every solo attack into a free power boost — in a deck built around sending one creature at a time, that growth compounds fast. Raiyuu, Storm's Edge is the natural home, and in that shell Upriser Renegade is a near-automatic include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
Raiyuu, Storm's Edge triggers on each combated creature attacking alone, and Upriser Renegade rewards exactly that pattern — every Raiyuu trigger that untaps your team also means Upriser is picking up another +1/+1 counter, snowballing into a serious threat while the engine runs.
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 |
Upriser Renegade is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive constructed formats have no interest in it — the power ceiling is too low and the payoff too slow for 60-card environments where games end before the counters matter. Commander is where it actually lives, specifically in Samurai and solo-attacker strategies where the trigger fires every combat. Outside of Raiyuu, Storm's Edge decks, it's a fringe inclusion at best.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Upriser Renegade is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar bin or ordering a playset for under a dollar. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles don't appreciate, so there's no reason to stockpile copies beyond what you need.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.