Carrionette
Creature — Skeleton
: Exile this card and target creature unless that creature's controller pays . Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $1.54
- EDHREC rank
- #20057
Carrionette exiles a creature permanently — no graveyard recursion, no reanimation targets — for two mana with a discard rider that rarely matters. It's a niche removal piece that earns its slot only in black decks that actively want to strip the graveyard.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Carrionette occupies a narrow lane: graveyard-hate removal that also answers indestructible creatures, which is genuinely useful in a format where Uril, the Miststalker and Blightsteel Colossus roam. The discard cost is close to irrelevant in graveyard-matters decks that want cards in the bin anyway. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — Swords to Plowshares exists, and two mana with a discard clause is not competitive. Carrionette is a Commander card through and through, best treated as a sideboard answer to recursive threats rather than a maindeck staple.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.54 cheap tier
At $1.54, Carrionette sits in the cheap tier where budget brewers can slot it without hesitation. It won't appreciate — supply is stable and demand is too narrow — but losing $1.54 to a better option later is not a meaningful cost.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.