First printed in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022)
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #197, 2022
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #510, 2022
Street Urchin 
Legendary Enchantment — Background
Commander creatures you own have ", Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Your harsh upbringing on the streets of the city left you crafty, resilient, and wise beyond your years.
- Illustrated by
- Julie Dillon
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (12)
- You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- If your commander is an artifact creature, you may sacrifice it to pay the cost of this ability.
- If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
- An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- If your commander that had the ability Street Urchin gave it somehow isn't a creature at the time the ability resolves, it will still deal 1 damage.
- Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway). - Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.26 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).
Combos
34 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite damage: Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Street Urchin + Xorn
- Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite Clue tokens…: Academy Manufactor + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Street Urchin
- Destroy all creatures opponents control during each turn: Crime Novelist + Revel in Riches + Street Urchin
- Infinite damage: Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Street Urchin + Urza, Lord High Artificer
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Fiery Emancipation + Smaug the Impenetrable + Street Urchin
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: City on Fire + Smaug the Impenetrable + Street Urchin
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Jaya, Venerated Firemage + Smaug the Impenetrable + Street Urchin
- Infinite damage: Adrix and Nev, Twincasters + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Street Urchin
- Infinite damage: Jolene, the Plunder Queen + Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Street Urchin
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Insult // Injury + Smaug the Impenetrable + Street Urchin
