Carrion Thrash
Creature — Lizard Warrior
When this creature dies, you may pay 
. If you do, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #27963
Carrion Thrash is a 4/4 for five mana that replaces itself on death by returning any Demon, Zombie, or Warrior card from your graveyard — but you pay two life and sacrifice another creature to trigger it. That cost is a feature in sacrifice-centric shells and a liability everywhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Carrion Thrash is bulk in Legacy, Vintage, and Modern — those formats have no patience for a five-mana creature with conditional recursion stapled on. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it sees occasional fringe play, since the power floor on commons is lower and the creature type overlap with Zombies and Warriors is more exploitable. In Commander, Carrion Thrash earns its seat in Rakdos or Jund sacrifice decks where the death trigger and life payment feed engines rather than just recoup a loss — think Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Braids, Arisen Nightmare shells that want fodder and recursion on the same card.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Carrion Thrash is deep bulk — no demand spike is coming for a five-mana recursive beater with type restrictions. Pick it up freely as a role-player in a budget sacrifice build, but don't expect it to appreciate.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.