Cemetery Puca
Creature — Shapeshifter
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay 
. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that creature, except it has this ability.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $2.50
- EDHREC rank
- #19040
Cemetery Puca copies any creature that dies — yours, your opponents', anything — and holds that shape until the next creature hits a graveyard. The cost is that it copies only power and toughness, not abilities, which means it's doing real work in aristocrats and sacrifice loops but embarrassing itself next to Dargo, the Shipwrecker unless something else is dying on the same turn.
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 |
Commander is where Cemetery Puca earns its keep: multiplayer tables generate constant creature deaths, so it almost never sits as a vanilla 2/2 for long, and blue decks that want a shapeshifter on a budget have few cleaner options at this mana cost. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but barely on anyone's radar — the formats move too fast and too linearly for a reactive copy effect to pull weight. Modern sees occasional fringe play in aristocrats shells, though better options usually crowd it out. Cemetery Puca is essentially a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dargo, the ShipwreckerSilas Renn, Seeker AdeptRuthless TechnomancerCemetery Puca
Infinite colored mana; Infinite commander casts; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens; Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield
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Current price
$2.50 cheap tier
At $2.50, Cemetery Puca sits at the low end of the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough that the barrier to testing it is nearly zero. Demand is steady but narrow, so the price is unlikely to spike unless a high-profile Cemetery Puca deck pushes it into mainstream rotation.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.