Burning-Eye Zubera
Creature — Zubera Spirit
When this creature dies, if 4 or more damage was dealt to it this turn, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #29551
Burning-Eye Zubera deals 3 damage to any target when it dies alongside at least one other Zubera — a meaningful payoff stapled to a 2/2 body for three mana. Outside of dedicated Zubera tribal, the damage trigger almost never fires, which makes this bulk in any other context.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Burning-Eye Zubera is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, Zubera tribal is a fringe archetype with no dedicated commander, so Burning-Eye Zubera ends up in the 99 of spirit-matters or sacrifice-matters builds where its trigger is unreliable at best. In Legacy and Modern, a three-mana 2/2 with a conditional on-death effect is nowhere near the power threshold required to see play. Oathbreaker has the same problem — the trigger demands a critical mass of Zuberas that the format's 58-card constraint makes difficult to assemble.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Burning-Eye Zubera is deep bulk — the kind of card that rounds out a binder page rather than a budget list. Demand is too narrow for the price to move in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.