Silent-Blade Oni
Silent-Blade Oni: Creature - Demon Ninja, Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}{B}{B}
- Mana value
- 7
- Type
- Creature - Demon Ninja
- Colour identity
- Blue and black (UB)
- Power / toughness
- 6/5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
- Released
- 2024-04-19
- Collector number
- 241
- Artist
- Steve Prescott
- Commander rank
- 2,826 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Ninjutsu
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About Silent-Blade Oni
Silent-Blade Oni is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and black creature from Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC), a Commander product released in April 2024. It is collector number 241 in that set, with art by Steve Prescott. It costs {3}{U}{U}{B}{B} (three generic, two blue and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. It is a 6/5 creature. Its colour identity is blue and black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Planechase 2012 (2012) to Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $4.78 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $4.78 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Silent-Blade Oni by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Silent-Blade Oni
Silent-Blade Oni has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| New Capenna Commander (NCC) #352 | Rare | 2022 |
| Commander 2018 (C18) #191 | Rare | 2018 |
| Planechase Anthology (PCA) #105 | Rare | 2016 |
| Planechase 2012 (PC2) #105 | Rare | 2012 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Silent-Blade Oni, newest first.
- If you cast a permanent spell this way, it will enter under your control when it resolves. If you cast an instant or sorcery spell this way, that card will be put into its owner's graveyard when it resolves.
- If you cast a card without paying its mana cost, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as evoke or the alternative cost provided by the morph ability. If it has {X} in its mana cost, X must be 0. However, you can pay optional additional costs, such as kicker, and you must still pay mandatory additional costs, such as the one on Fling.
- The nonland card you cast via the triggered ability is cast as part of the resolution of that ability. Timing restrictions based on the card's type are ignored. Other restrictions, such as "Cast [this card] only during an opponent's turn," are not.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue and black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Silent-Blade Oni is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.