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Onakke Ogre

Creature — Ogre Warrior2 generic manaRed mana

Four power for three mana, with the toughness shaved to two so the trade stays honest: this is the vanilla aggressor at its most distilled, a body whose entire pitch is that it hits hard and dies to almost anything. The 4/2 chassis has been red's default rate for the early-game beatdown slot since the game's first decade, and this is the modern continuation of that line, the same bargain earlier ogres and goblins offered: maximum pressure, no protection, a creature that wants to attack into an open board and trades up the moment it meets a blocker. There is no text to discuss because the design is the absence of text. It exists to give an aggressive red deck a curve-filling common that represents four damage a turn and asks nothing of its pilot beyond a willingness to race. The Warrior type line nods at tribal payoffs, but the card is built for the player who wants their three-drop to swing for four and is not interested in negotiating about it. The toughness of two carries all the risk the rate is priced against: the Ogre folds to almost any burn spell, any two-power blocker, any early creature it runs into, so the four power only pays off if the game is already moving in your direction and the opponent has nothing to stop the beating.

Onakke Ogre (m21)
M21 · #155common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.18
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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