Dread Wanderer
Creature — Zombie Jackal
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have one or fewer cards in hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #18591
Dread Wanderer is a one-mana 2/1 that crawls back from the graveyard on its own, making it a persistent threat that demands two answers. The self-recursion cost — empty hand — is a real constraint, but in aggressive or sacrifice-heavy shells that empty their hand fast, it's rarely a bottleneck.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dread Wanderer earns its slot in sacrifice loops and aristocrats builds, where it recurs without needing a dedicated engine card. Modern and Pioneer aggressive black strategies have used it as a cheap body that doesn't stay dead, though it competes hard with other one-drops in those formats. Legacy doesn't have much room for a 2/1 with a conditional recursion clause when the competition is that brutal. Across formats, the honest read is that Dread Wanderer is best where dying repeatedly is a feature, not a cost.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data isn't currently available for Dread Wanderer, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Historically it's been a bulk-to-low-value rare, which makes it an easy pickup if the deck calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.