Corpse Hauler
Creature — Human Rogue
, Sacrifice this creature: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #22155
Corpse Hauler is a two-mana 2/1 that can pay two mana and sacrifice itself to return a creature from your graveyard to your hand — recursion stapled to a body, but at a steep rate. The effect is real; the inefficiency is just as real, and most black decks have better options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Corpse Hauler finds its most forgiving home in Pauper, where the commons pool thins out and a recursive body on a creature carries more weight than it would elsewhere. In Commander, the bar for graveyard recursion is high — Eternal Witness, Gravedigger, and similar cards do the job cheaper or more reliably, which pushes Corpse Hauler to the fringes of the format. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have no meaningful demand for it; those formats move too fast for a 2/1 that spends four total mana to rebuy one creature. Oathbreaker is the one 60-card-adjacent zone where it might see incidental play in a sacrifice-heavy shell that needs redundancy at the common slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Corpse Hauler is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. That price is stable by definition; there's no demand pressure that would move it in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.