Coffin Puppets
Creature — Zombie
Sacrifice two lands: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if you control a Swamp.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29552
Coffin Puppets is a repeatable reanimation enchantment that returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield each upkeep — for free once you control a Swamp, at the cost of two life otherwise. The ceiling is real in graveyard-heavy black decks, but the payoff depends entirely on what you're recursing.
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 |
Commander is where Coffin Puppets has any business seeing play — graveyard loops, sacrifice synergies, and high-value recursive targets all exist in abundance in 100-card singleton, and the enchantment's cumulative upkeep-style life payment is easily offset by lifegain or simply running enough Swamps to dodge the cost entirely. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats but far too fast and powerful for a three-mana enchantment that doesn't impact the board the turn it resolves. Coffin Puppets is a Commander-only conversation.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Coffin Puppets at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow application and low demand, it almost certainly sits in bulk-rare territory — pick it up cheaply if the archetype fits.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.