Dimir House Guard
Creature — Skeleton
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
Transmute 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #5085
Dimir House Guard is a four-mana 2/3 with fear and regenerate that earns its slot almost entirely through its transmute ability — pay three mana, discard it, and tutor any four-mana card straight to your hand. In K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth decks, that transmute cost drops to one generic and two life, making Chainer, Dementia Master and other four-drop bombs trivially fetchable at near-zero mana investment.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Dimir House Guard's transmute cost is three black pips, which K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth converts into three life — tutoring any four-mana bomb for a single colorless mana and 3 life is the kind of efficiency that makes the card a staple in nearly 40% of K'rrik lists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Dimir House Guard actually lives — its body is irrelevant at high-power tables, but transmuting into any four-mana piece (combo enablers, value engines, silver bullets) at instant speed makes it a flexible, low-visibility tutor. In Pauper it's legal and the 2/3 fear body is marginally more relevant, but transmute tutors aren't legal targets for most payoffs at common, so it rarely makes cuts. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but no competitive shell wants a three-mana sorcery-speed tutor when Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor exist. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Chainer, Dementia MasterK'rrik, Son of YawgmothGray Merchant of AsphodelDimir House Guard
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifeloss; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
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Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Dimir House Guard is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. The price is stable and unlikely to move; transmute tutors have been reprinted enough that supply stays high even as Commander demand grows.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.