Urborg Mindsucker
Creature — Horror
, Sacrifice this creature: Target opponent discards a card at random. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29694
Urborg Mindsucker enters the battlefield and forces an opponent to exile a card from their hand face-down, which you can then cast — a disruptive effect stapled to a body that actually threatens the board. The cost is that it's a four-mana 3/2 with no evasion, so the rate is only worth it if the stolen card or the disruption materially changes the game.
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 |
In Commander, Urborg Mindsucker is a fringe inclusion — stripping one card from one opponent at the table is a low-yield play in a 99-card multiplayer format, and the body doesn't compensate enough to run it over tighter options. Legacy and Vintage both have access to it, but neither format has any interest in a four-mana 3/2 when dedicated discard and theft effects are far more efficient. Pauper is the most plausible home: the effect is meaningful at common rarity, and if a black tempo or theft-adjacent archetype wants this kind of disruption stapled to a creature, Urborg Mindsucker at least competes on power level.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Urborg Mindsucker is deep bulk — easy to acquire, easy to ignore on price. Unless a dedicated archetype emerges that wants repeatable hand disruption on a creature, there's no pressure to move on copies in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.