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Deepwood Ghoul

Creature — Zombie

Pay 2 life: Regenerate this creature.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Eighth Edition
Price
$0.06
EDHREC rank
#19639
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Deepwood Ghoul card art
Deepwood Ghoul lets you pay life to give a creature -1/-1 until end of turn — repeatable on-board removal that costs nothing but your own health. In life-payment decks headlined by Rowan, Scion of War, that life loss is a resource, not a drawback, making Deepwood Ghoul a surprisingly functional piece of interactive pressure.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Deepwood Ghoul is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in dedicated life-payment shells. In Commander, it works as a repeatable utility creature in decks that want to drain their own life total for value. In Pauper it's technically playable but faces stiff competition from cheaper, more impactful black commons. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect is too slow and too small for those environments. Deepwood Ghoul is a Commander card through and through.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.06 bulk tier

At $0.06, Deepwood Ghoul is pure bulk — you'll find it in a dime box before you find it on a price tracker. It's not a card that appreciates; run it because you need the effect, not because you're speculating on demand.

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