Vulshok Refugee
Creature — Human Warrior
Protection from red
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30055
Vulshok Refugee is a 2/3 for three mana with protection from red — a creature that blanks entire aggressive red strategies and dodges the most common removal color in Commander. Three mana for a 2/3 is below rate by today's standards, so you run it exclusively for the protection ability, not the stats.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vulshok Refugee fills a narrow but real role: protection from red covers Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, and the vast majority of targeted red removal, so it survives board states that kill everything else at the table. Outside of red-heavy metas, the 2/3 body is too underpowered to justify a slot. In Legacy and Vintage, where red removal like Lightning Bolt and Pyroblast is everywhere, the protection ability is genuinely relevant — but a 3-mana 2/3 with no immediate impact on a spell-dense board is unplayable in those formats competitively. Modern is the same story: the effect is real, the rate is not.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Vulshok Refugee is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for the price of a pack of gum and never worry about it. Bulk commons and uncommons with narrow applications don't appreciate, so this is a low-cost include for a specific metagame need, nothing more.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.