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Aphetto Vulture

Creature — Zombie Bird

Flying
When this creature dies, you may put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Onslaught
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#27497
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Aphetto Vulture card art
Aphetto Vulture recycles Zombies from your graveyard into your hand whenever another Zombie you control dies — a repeatable engine that snowballs in any deck flooding the board with undead. Pair it with Rooftop Storm and the math gets absurd fast: free Zombies dying and returning, over and over, until something breaks.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Aphetto Vulture is a Commander card through and through — the effect is too slow and too dependent on a critical mass of Zombies to matter in Legacy or Vintage, where the format will end before the engine pays off. In Commander, it earns its slot in any Zombie tribal build as a graveyard-recursive value engine that punishes sweepers by refilling your hand rather than leaving you empty.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Aphetto Vulture is pure bulk — pick it up without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that it's unlikely to spike, but at this price that's irrelevant: you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it works.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.