Entomber Exarch
Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature card from it. That player discards that card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #17764
Entomber Exarch enters and immediately demands a decision from your opponent — give back a creature from your graveyard, or discard a nonland card — making it a two-for-one threat that operates the moment it hits the table. The cost is that both modes are conditional on what's already happened in the game, so it underperforms on an empty board before any cards have been traded.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Entomber Exarch is a niche inclusion: the recursion mode fits reanimator strategies that want redundant graveyard access at instant-or-sorcery speed, and the discard mode has marginal value in a four-player game where one opponent discarding one card rarely changes the outcome. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to support it, but those formats demand higher efficiency and Entomber Exarch rarely clears that bar outside of very specific Recurring Nightmare or reanimator shells. Modern has passed it by — better ETB creatures and more targeted discard exist at the same mana cost. Entomber Exarch is most honest in Commander reanimator builds where the creature type or the flexible modal design matters more than raw efficiency.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Entomber Exarch is deep bulk — no financial risk to picking up a copy, and no expectation of appreciation given its limited competitive footprint. It holds its price floor the same way any forgotten uncommon does: low demand, low ceiling.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.