Eternal Taskmaster
Creature — Zombie
This creature enters tapped.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #16162
Eternal Taskmaster enters attacking and dragging a creature back from your graveyard to hand — that's immediate board pressure and card advantage stapled together. The cost is two mana on re-entry and the Coretapper problem: a 2/3 for three doesn't survive contact with most boards, so the value only accrues if you're already playing a recursion-friendly shell.
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 |
Eternal Taskmaster is a Commander card — the graveyard-matters and aristocrats decks that want it thrive in a 100-card singleton format where the triggered re-entry ability compounds over a long game. In Modern and Legacy it's simply outclassed: three mana for a 2/3 with a slow value engine doesn't compete with the speed of those formats, and it sees essentially no play there. Pioneer is the same story. Eternal Taskmaster is playable in Oathbreaker for the same reasons it works in Commander, though the smaller deck size makes it marginally easier to assemble the synergy pieces it needs.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Eternal Taskmaster is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or bulk-bin find. Bulk rares with narrow use cases don't appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a hold.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.