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Bridge from Below

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, if this card is in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if this card is in your graveyard, exile this card.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{B}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Masters
Price
$0.61
EDHREC rank
#15837
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Bridge from Below card art
Bridge from Below generates a free 2/2 Zombie token every time one of your nontoken creatures dies — with no mana investment beyond getting it into your graveyard. The catch is that it exiles itself if an opponent's creature dies, but in dedicated self-mill shells like Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis it's simply one of the strongest free payoffs in the format, and Nether Traitor's shadow and haste make it one of the cleanest creatures to loop with it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Bridge from Below carries one critical restriction: it exiles itself whenever an opponent's creature hits the graveyard, which in a four-player game means any sweeper or combat step can clean it up before you cash in. Modern banned it because graveyard decks there could combo off before opponents had meaningful interaction. Commander gives it a pass not because the restriction disappears — it's actually worse with three opponents threatening to trigger the exile clause — but because the 100-card singleton format rewards dedicated graveyard synergy enough that the upside in the right shell outweighs the fragility.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

17.2% of decks · synergy 0.17

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis mills aggressively and convokes creatures from the graveyard to cast itself repeatedly, which means Bridge from Below is triggering on nearly every turn cycle — the deck generates so many dying nontoken creatures that the Zombie flood becomes a legitimate secondary win condition.

02
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

12.4% of decks · synergy 0.12

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician sacrifices creatures as a cost to draw cards and distribute -1/-1 counters, so Bridge from Below converts every sacrifice activation into a Zombie that can immediately be sacrificed again — the two cards form a value loop that scales with any undying creature already in the shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.61 bulk tier

At $0.61, Bridge from Below is firmly bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. It's a niche card with a narrow home, so don't expect the price to move unless a new graveyard commander pushes it into wider circulation.

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