Coffin Queen
Creature — Zombie Wizard
You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
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: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When this creature becomes untapped or you lose control of this creature, exile that creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $1.04
- EDHREC rank
- #12522
Coffin Queen steals creatures from any graveyard and puts them directly under your control — the catch is that tapping her ends the arrangement and exiles the creature, so you need ways to untap her repeatedly to get real mileage out of the ability. Pair her with a zero-cost tap outlet like Cloud of Faeries and she becomes a repeatable reanimation engine on a three-mana body. The verdict: underplayed, high ceiling, and punishingly good against creature-heavy tables.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Merieke Ri Berit
Merieke Ri Berit already wants untap enablers to repeatedly steal and destroy opponents' creatures, and Coffin Queen plugs into the exact same infrastructure — the same Pemmin's Aura or Freed from the Real that untaps Merieke untaps the Queen, effectively doubling your theft capacity out of the same support package.
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 Queen does her best work: multiplayer graveyards fill fast, giving her a wide menu of targets, and the untap synergies she demands are abundant in blue-black shells. In Legacy and Vintage she's legal but too slow and conditional — reanimation in those formats wants the creature in play immediately, not tethered to a tappable three-drop. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your signature spell supports an untap or sacrifice loop, but the format's lower power ceiling means the engine rarely gets to run at full speed. Outside those formats she doesn't exist, and that's fine; Coffin Queen is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Cloud of FaeriesCoffin QueenIntruder AlarmPhyrexian Tower
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures you control
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$1.04 cheap tier
At $1.04, Coffin Queen sits in the cheap tier — strong value for an older card with a unique, repeatable effect that no modern card has cleanly replaced. The price reflects modest demand rather than weakness; she's a niche piece that the right deck wants badly, so don't expect the floor to drop further.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Cloud of Faeries
- Merieke Ri Berit
- Intruder Alarm
- Phyrexian Tower
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.