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God-Eternal Oketra

Legendary Creature — Zombie God

Double strike
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance.
When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
mythic
Set
War of the Spark
Price
$3.05
EDHREC rank
#2425
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God-Eternal Oketra card art
God-Eternal Oketra turns every creature spell into a two-for-one — cast anything with a body and you get a free 4/4 vigilance Zombie alongside it, which snowballs fast in any deck running a creature density above 25. The five-mana cost is real, but the resiliency clause (shuffle back into your library third from top instead of going to the graveyard) means opposing removal rarely sticks, and support cards like Oketra's Monument cut that cost further while Temmet, Naktamun's Will turns the token flood into a lethal swing.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Temmet, Naktamun's Will

90.1% of decks · synergy 0.84

Temmet, Naktamun's Will is in God-Eternal Oketra in over 90% of builds because the engine is almost embarrassingly direct: every creature spell generates a 4/4 Zombie token, and Temmet makes those tokens unblockable on your attack step, converting what would be incidental value into a consistent kill condition.

02
Atreus, Impulsive SonKratos, Stoic Father

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father

63.4% of decks · synergy 0.61

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father triggers off creatures entering the battlefield, and God-Eternal Oketra doubles the entry count — every creature spell you cast becomes two triggers, letting the deck compound advantage faster than opponents can answer.

03
Varina, Lich Queen

Varina, Lich Queen

61.0% of decks · synergy 0.55

Varina, Lich Queen cares about Zombie count for card draw and life drain, and God-Eternal Oketra is one of the best Zombie factories in white, supplying a steady stream of 4/4s every time you cast a creature spell.

04
Odric, Lunarch Marshal

Odric, Lunarch Marshal

34.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

God-Eternal Oketra is a source of multiple bodies at once, and Odric, Lunarch Marshal reads every combat step — Oketra's own vigilance and the vigilance she stamps onto Zombie tokens means Odric spreads those keywords across the entire board before attackers are declared.

05
Karametra, God of Harvests

Karametra, God of Harvests

17.9% of decks · synergy 0.17

Karametra, God of Harvests triggers off creature casts, which makes God-Eternal Oketra a natural fit: every creature spell you play to ramp with Karametra simultaneously generates a 4/4 Zombie, turning land-search triggers into a board presence that scales through the mid and late game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where God-Eternal Oketra does her best work — the multiplayer format gives you enough turns to recoup the five-mana investment, the token generation compounds across a full table's worth of combat steps, and the shuffle-back clause renders spot removal nearly useless in a singleton environment. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern she sees negligible play, not because the effect is weak but because five mana is glacial against decks that close the game on turn three. Pioneer is the same story — creature-combo decks there prefer cheaper payoffs that win the same turn they land. Vintage has the raw card power to support her cost but no incentive to play a value engine when the format ends games before the tokens matter.

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Price Context

Current price

$3.05 cheap tier

At $3.05, God-Eternal Oketra sits in the sweet spot where the effect is dramatically undercosted relative to its power — a mythic rare that generates tokens off every creature spell and laughs at removal should cost more, and the price reflects a reprint history that has kept supply healthy. It's a safe include at this price; casual demand and Commander staple status make a significant drop unlikely, but this isn't a card to buy as a spec — you buy it to play it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.