Curious Cadaver
Creature — Zombie Detective
Flying
When you sacrifice a Clue, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #26173
Curious Cadaver trades a creature you control for any card in an opponent's graveyard, stapling a reanimation effect onto a removal trigger at three mana. It's a role-player in dedicated theft and graveyard strategies, not a generic inclusion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Curious Cadaver earns a slot in decks that actively want opponents' cards — theft builds, Grixis reanimator shells, or any commander that benefits from sniping a specific threat out of a graveyard before it gets recurred. Outside Commander, Curious Cadaver is too slow and narrow for Modern or Pioneer, where graveyard interaction needs to cost one or two mana at instant speed to be relevant. Standard is the likeliest competitive home if a graveyard-heavy meta develops, but even there it competes with cheaper options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Curious Cadaver is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for the price of a sleeve. Don't expect that to move; narrow three-mana sorceries with situational effects don't hold secondary-market value.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.