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Crypt Champion

Creature — Zombie

Double strike
When this creature enters, each player puts a creature card with mana value 3 or less from their graveyard onto the battlefield.
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless {R} was spent to cast it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Dissension
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#26225
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Crypt Champion card art
Crypt Champion enters and immediately reanimates a creature from every player's graveyard — including yours — which is the whole reason it exists. The double-black in a four-mana red cost is a real deckbuilding constraint, but the Saffi Eriksdotter loop pays it off completely.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Crypt Champion does its real work — the reanimation trigger hits every graveyard at once, which generates asymmetric value in multiplayer and enables infinite loops that other formats can't sustain. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes against faster, cleaner reanimation at lower mana investment and sees essentially no play. Modern has the same problem: the BBRR pip constraint puts it out of reach for any deck that could actually use it efficiently. Crypt Champion is a Commander card that happens to be legal elsewhere.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Crypt Champion is deep bulk — a coin-rummage bin find. The price is stable because demand is narrow but consistent: it's a combo piece in specific Jund and Abzan graveyard builds, not a card anyone is speculating on.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.