Ghoulraiser
Creature — Zombie
When this creature enters, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadows of the Past
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17971
Ghoulraiser enters the battlefield and immediately returns a random Zombie from your graveyard to your hand — raw recursion stapled to a 2/2 body for three mana. The randomness keeps it out of competitive lists, but in casual Zombie tribal it does exactly what the tribe wants without asking you to build around it.
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 |
Ghoulraiser is strictly a casual Commander card — the randomness on the recursion trigger is a non-starter anywhere the game moves fast enough to demand precision. In Zombie tribal Commander builds it earns its slot as a cheap, repeatable-when-bounced body that keeps the hand full without requiring a tutor. Pauper is the only competitive-adjacent format where it's legal and theoretically playable, but even there it's too slow and too random against the format's efficient threats. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper and irrelevant in practice. If you're running Ghoulraiser, you're running it in Commander, and specifically in a deck that wants redundancy over consistency.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Ghoulraiser at the moment, but it's a bulk common — expect to find copies in the $0.25-and-under bin at any local game store or for near-nothing in online orders. There's no financial case to make here; just pick one up if the Zombie tribal slot calls for it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.